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By: Jonathan Eida

Jonathan Eida is a researcher at the Tax Payers' Alliance

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  • Civil service reform? Burnham is rearranging deck chairs

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    Politicians are finally discovering what taxpayers have known for years: the civil service is too big, too expensive and too slow. 

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  • Time to restore true independence to the Bank of England

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    The Bank of England is no longer held directly responsible for inflation but must juggle multiple, sometimes competing objectives. As a result price stability, the Bank’s founding mission, risks being sidelined, says Jonathan Eida While parliament took its summer recess, the Bank of England was busy. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) last month announced another [...]

    A Bank of England policymaker has called for interest rates to be held at a higher rate for some time longer.

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