Even though the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will probably acknowledge in the policy announcement on Thursday 24th June that activity and inflation have been stronger than it expected, we don’t think it will suggest it is any closer to tightening policy. While the markets expect that policy will be tightened in late 2022, we don’t think the MPC will get to that stage until 2024. And when it does, we suspect it will unwind some quantitative easing before raising interest rates in 2025.
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