Bank of England’s Haskel prefers holding rates on back of ‘tight’ labour market Economics A Bank of England rate-setter said he would prefer to leave interest rates on hold to ensure the surge in inflation has been decisively tamed.
Bank of England rate-setter Haskel: Interest rate cuts are still ‘a long way off’ Bank of England "Although the fall in headline inflation is very good news, it is not informative about what we really care about: what we really care about is the persistent and the underlying inflation," Haskel told the Financial Times.