30th January 2024 Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, the consultancy, said: “Inflation pressures are fading fairly fast … overall CPI inflation will fall below the Bank of England’s 2 per cent target in April.” View article
How well will UK consumers withstand the April price rises? “It is just a load of price hikes coming all at once — and on things you by and large can’t avoid,” said Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics. 1st April 2025 · Financial Times
Weak productivity and Trump tariffs: the chancellor remains in perilous fiscal waters “There is an air of unfinished business here,” said Paul Dales at Capital Economics. “Reeves said the world is changing, but fiscal policy hasn’t changed much at all. It is a bit of tinkering that... 27th March 2025 · Financial Times
What’s at stake in the US-UK trade talks? “The barriers we have put up against the EU are far more important than any we could take down with the US,” said Paul Dales, UK economist at Capital Economics. 3rd March 2025 · Financial Times
