Farage is given a taste of economic reality on his day out at the Bank

Central bankers are under siege at present. Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, who can read the opinion polls as well as the rest of us, last week invited the egregious Nigel Farage in for talks.

- William Keegan @williamkeegan

Bailey will no doubt have had a private word with Jerome Powell, chairman of the US Federal Reserve, at the recent jamboree of bankers and others in the financial world at Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Powell is at the sharp end of having to cope with ignorant advice from the current president of the United States. Since Farage clearly sees Donald Trump as his role model, Bailey presumably decided to get in first and give Farage some sage advice about living in the real world of economic policy, and not the fantasy land of Liz Truss mark two.