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BoE may unwind QE before hiking rates

We think there’s a good chance that when the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee starts to tighten monetary policy it will do it by unwinding some quantitative easing before it raises interest rates. That would be consistent with the gilt yield curve steepening rather than flattening.  

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