A bumper rise in utilities prices in October could contribute to CPI inflation climbing to a 10-year high of 4.4% in November. But as we don’t expect higher CPI inflation to feed through into higher inflation expectations or faster underlying pay growth, we doubt the Bank of England will respond by tightening monetary policy until things change in 2023.
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