The Latest Breaking News from Andrew Bailey

The Bank and the Government are in the process of exploring the launch of a digital pound.

Lower interest rates will be a lever for growth but the Middle East conflict and rising food prices will have troubled MPC

Andrew Bailey told MPs during a Treasury Committee session that the Bank had ‘genuine concerns’ about escalating trade tensions.

Home secretary appears to accept early release proposals will put more pressure on police as she is questioned at select committee

The Windsor Framework, agreed between the UK and the EU in 2023, amended the Northern Ireland Protocol.

Andrew Bailey says Brexit was not ‘wrong’ but welcomes the UK’s efforts to reset relations with the bloc

Huw Pill said cuts in the Bank of England’s base rate have been ‘too rapid’

Missouri’s attorney general has sued a natural gas company over the explosion of a home in a small town that killed a 5-year-old boy

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: For all the praise that has greeted the government’s new trade arrangements with India and the United States, it is the promise of closer ties – both economic and defensive – with our nearest neighbours that will prove the most valuable and enduring