Are the one-offs boosting inflation really one-offs?

The Bank of England continues to argue that inflation is being kept high by a series of one-off factors. Many of the “idiosyncratic” factors boosting inflation at the moment may prove to be more than temporary. Even so, a case could be made for the MPC continuing to ignore them.

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