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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

There’s an upside risk to inflation, and particularly as to whether... this current increase could persist somewhat more than we expect it to. We don’t expect it to actually, but could it?

Missourians deserve the truth, not AI-generated propaganda masquerading as fact.

We’ve won a major battle in the war for Missouri’s private property rights and farmers.

If Invenergy still intends to force this project on unwilling landowners, we will continue to fight every step of the way.