What Keir Starmer’s successors could mean for UK bond yields

The rise in yields “would reflect looser fiscal policy leading to higher GDP growth, inflation and [interest rates] than otherwise, as well as a larger fiscal risk premium”, according to Capital...

Paul Dales, chief UK economist at Capital Economics, said: “The later-than-usual budget [on November 26] meant that the rise in tobacco duties were only captured in the ONS’s December survey.”

Paul Dales, at the consultancy Capital Economics, said that since May, the average monthly value of the UK’s goods exports to the US had fallen by £0.75bn, or 13 per cent compared with the year before...