The Bank of England’s (BoE) Monetary Policy Committee has cut interest rates by a quarter point, from 4.75% to 4.5%.
Seven MPC members voted in favour of the interest rate cut, while two preferred a 50bps snip. The Bank argued that over the past two years, there has been a "substantial progress on disinflation [...
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