Economics and the cost of living dominate Friday’s front pages.
“How can we trust the Bank of England?” asks the Daily Express after it says the Bank’s predictions for a recession and soaring unemployment were, as it puts it, “wrong, wrong, wrong”. A professor of accounting, Richard Murphy, has written in the Mirror arguing the Bank’s decision to raise interest rates was “cruel and pointless” – saying “it takes at least 18 months to have any impact on inflation”, which he says is expected to be 2% by 2024 as it is. But the Daily Telegraph, in its editorial, says “this is monetary policy returning to normal” – arguing “Britain can no longer rely on money-printing and ultra-low rates to create an illusion of prosperity”.
The i newspaper says the government is resisting calls from Tory MPs to cut taxes to help those struggling financially. The Telegraph highlights a comment by the Work and Pensions secretary, Mel Stride, who says the basic rate of income tax could be cut by 2p if…
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