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MPC retains faith in spare capacity to reduce inflation

Last week’s Inflation Report was always likely to show a downward revision to the MPC’s growth forecasts and it duly delivered. But less certain was whether the recent rise in inflation would have shaken the MPC’s belief that a large amount of spare capacity in the economy will bear down on inflation further ahead.

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