Andrew Bailey

I didn’t ever ask to be a politician, but I am a public servant, and I knew I wanted to serve the people of the state of Missouri.

We can’t let blue states like California and New York cheat by allowing criminal aliens to vote, double counting Democrat votes and thereby suppressing your constitutional right to vote.

The cornerstone of prosperous communities is the criminal justice system and holding wrongdoers accountable.

The issue is not simply that investors are borrowing more, but that leverage is interacting with high valuations and market concentration, in particular the increasing cross-investment between artificial intelligence (AI) companies and…

I’m comfortable to wait and see. Three of my colleagues thought it was already time to act.

Ultimately the interest rate is set to match the needs of the UK economy, and that they do not rely at what the Federal Reserve does or what the European Central Bank does to show them the path.

The Bank is not “edging towards a hike” – just that the Bank has held rates steady this time.

If you come out of the session talking about an insurance hike, I’m afraid you haven’t understood what we said.

The UK economy is an open economy relative to others, which means we have to spend more time considering the effect of the broader world.

Inflation has fallen faster than expected but the conflict in the Middle East continues to mean high and volatile energy prices. That will cause inflation to rise again this year.

Please do not leave this room thinking that the Bank of England is edging towards a hike, because frankly, there's nothing in what I said, and I think any of us have said along those lines.

So it depends on how the events in the Middle East, frankly, unfold. And sadly, we all know this is highly unpredictable.

If we get a continuation of this conflict going on and oil prices stay above $100 a barrel... the odds are that interest rates will have to go up higher.

We do have a responsibility as a public authority to be open to the leaders of parties in the Westminster system. I think that’s fine. I think we must do that.

I do actually think we’re encouraging innovation, so I think we are doing the right thing there.

Whether I would have then said: ‘Well, I think we’d better wait until the investigation is done before we have the meeting’ – I think that would be a judgment we would have taken at the time.

If you reduce the size of the markets that we trade with, so we reduce our export markets, then that does tend to have a negative impact on growth.

I think the level of activity and growth in the economy has been lower.

Energy prices have come down quite a lot, but they're still above where they were before this conflict started. Inflation is higher than we expected it to be.

I think holding is the right position to be in at the moment for that, so I think it's a sensible decision in the light of the news.

The Bank's job is to make sure that doesn't turn into sustained inflation above our 2% target.

Oil prices have fallen in recent days, and that's encouraging.

Unfortunately, fake adverts impersonating the Bank of England and other central banks are on the rise.

It remains important that we do not cut bank rate too quickly or by too much