Current market sell-off has 'UK-specific component'
The Independent|September 30, 2022
The country's most senior economist has said that the current economic woes facing the UK are in part homegrown after the prime minister blamed them on Russia.
AUGUST GRAHAM
Current market sell-off has 'UK-specific component'

Huw Pill, the chief economist at the Bank of England, said there is "undoubtedly a UK-specific component" to the recent market movements, which have seen the pound collapse and the cost of government borrowing soar.

“Over the course of the past week, there has been a significant repricing of financial assets,” he told an audience of company directors in Holywood, County Down. “Part of that repricing reflects broader global developments. Part of it reflects the ongoing normalisation of macroeconomic policy after the pandemic-induced episode of exceptional ease.”

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