Mervyn King, the Bank of England governor, insisted on Tuesday that the Monetary Policy Committee “has become firmer in its belief” that a period of economic weakness is needed to bring inflation back down.
Consumer price inflation rose to 4.7 per cent in August, the Office for National Statistics reported earlier, up from 4.4 per cent in July on the back of sharp rises in gas and electricity bills.
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