Andrew Bailey: “I am not a politician.”

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

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…

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

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