Does it matter if the BoE ends QE before the Fed and ECB?

Our expectation that the Bank of England will end quantitative easing (QE) sooner than the US Fed and the ECB is unlikely to mean that UK government bond yields rise much further than elsewhere or that the pound is materially stronger.

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