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By Andy Silvester It may, perhaps, seem odd that the Bank of England’s decision on interest rates should be effectively made by the market. But that is the case over the coming ten weeks, through the May and June rate decision. To fail to meet market expectations would, now, represent the final nail in the credibility of Andrew Bailey’s governorship. This newspaper had little truck with the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee’s dawdling at the beginning of this current inflationary cycle, with delay and dither made all the worse by the fact the Bank’s ratesetters seemed dead-set on ign…

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