After Brexit, the Bank of England will have a new boss – and new problems
by Phillip Inman from Economics | The Guardian on (#3SW8F)
Mark Carney steps down next summer. His successor will face not just personal scrutiny, but questions about the job itself
Philip Hammond has spent many idle moments thinking about who should succeed Bank of England governor Mark Carney. How, the chancellor asks himself, can he repeat the stunning, rabbit-out-of-a-hat moment when No 11's previous incumbent, George Osborne, said in 2013 that the Canadian central banker who was heading the global post-crash clean-up operation was coming to help Britain's laboured recovery?
Carney is due to step down next June and has said the date is fixed in his diary after already extending his stay by a year to steer the Bank through Brexit and out the other side.
Some have labelled Carney an "unreliable boyfriend" - all promises and no action
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