Farage’s Deputy Calls for Fresh Debate over Bank of England Remit

Farage’s deputy calls for fresh debate over Bank of England remit

LONDON — Nigel Farage’s second-in-command called for a rethink of the U.K.’s interest rate-setting committee in a fresh sign that a Reform UK government could intervene in Britain’s independent central bank. Richard Tice, the deputy leader of the populist-right party that’s surging in U.K. polls, told POLITICO in an interview that there should be a debate over potentially sweeping changes to the make-up and role of the Bank of England’s Monetary…

Is Nigel Farage right about Bank of England independence?

Nigel Farage’s economic policies are neurasthenically inconsistent, but he has opened the door to a debate we need to have about whether Gordon Brown’s settlement for the Bank of England is fit for purpose, says Eliot Wilson Nigel Farage is a practised veteran at grabbing the headlines with a provocative-sounding but ultimately empty remark. Speaking to Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain recently, he raised the tenure of the Governor of the Bank of Engla…