By Chris Dorrell A Bank of England rate-setter said he would prefer to leave interest rates on hold a little while longer to ensure the post-pandemic surge in inflation has been decisively tamed. “I would rather hold rates until there is more certainty that underlying inflationary pressures have subsided sustainably,” Jonathan Haskel said in a speech at the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence. Haskel argued that the economy was still feeling the shocks from the pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, warning this would keep inflation above the two per cent target for “quite some tim…