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By Andy Silvester Andrew Bailey did not have a lot of luck when he came to the table as the new Governor of the Bank of England, stepping into the job about the same time as a flu-like virus from a Chinese city nobody had heard of arrived at Heathrow. He has since played a bad hand badly, confounding market expectations and continuing to put his foot in it with dramatic regularity. But in the past year or so, he has at least – whilst speaking mostly in his unique mix of the regulatory and the riddle – managed to do no harm. He has the opportunity to continue this winning streak today. The mark…

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