MPC won't ignore wider measures of labour market slack

By choosing the unemployment rate as its threshold for forward guidance, the MPC has been criticised for using a fairly narrow measure of slack in the labour market. However, we doubt that this will prevent interest rates being kept at 0.5% for much longer than financial markets think.

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