The successor to Mervyn King will have an "unduly powerful role" thanks to Treasury plans to extend the powers available to the Bank of England (BoE), one of the bank's advisers has warned.
Long-serving Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) member Kate Barker said the move would give unelected officials too much power and that big policy decisions "should be left in the hands of the Chancellor", reports The Guardian. BoE governor Mervyn King is due to retire in June next year. Regulatory oversight should be the job of the Treasury, based on advice from the BoE and other bodies involved in banking regulation, Barker said. She criticised government plans to create a financial policy committee (FPC) alongside the Bank's monetary policy committee (MPC), which sets interest rate...
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