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Could Boris Johnson’s cakeism survive the markets?

22 October 2022

3:00 AM

22 October 2022

3:00 AM

In the brief time Sajid Javid was chancellor to Boris Johnson, he spelled out to The Spectator his ‘low for long’ theory about rates: a theory which would enable the new prime minister’s ambitious spending agenda. Speaking to Fraser Nelson in December 2019, Javid was confident that the era of ultra-low interest rates and extremely favourable borrowing costs was here to stay.

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