Even if some of the weakness in activity in April comes back in May, GDP growth will still struggle to hit the Bank of England’s Q2 forecast of 0.2%. As such, we doubt that they will raise rates at their meeting next week and probably won’t increase rates until the Brexit uncertainty has started to wane.
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