• What really matters for policy is not current rate of inflation but medium-term outlook
  • Didn’t raise rates in February because MPC sees CPI risks equally balanced at present
  • Domestic contribution to inflation is low
  • It is clear that at some point bank rate will have to go up
  • Judgement of timing and speed of monetary tightening is not obvious
  • First move of tightening likely to be rate hike, QE unwind would come later
  • Always chances of ups and downs in growth rates