Price rises need to ease further before UK rates can be cut, says MPC member

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The Bank of England needs to see more evidence of price pressures easing before it starts cutting interest rates from their current 16-year high, a Monetary Policy Committee member said on Thursday.

Megan Greene told a conference in London that “inflation persistence” had waned since she joined the nine-member MPC last…