Mountain view: Bank top economist offers two routes to beating inflation

Huw Pill says he prefers longer, more steady use of interest rates of Table Mountain model over sharp rise and fall of Matterhorn approach

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Tourist attraction, backdrop to millions of selfies and one of the world's most easily identifiable landmarks. Cape Town's Table Mountain is all of these things, but now it has found a new role: as a guide to what will happen to UK interest rates.

For Huw Pill the opportunity was too good to pass up. Invited by South Africa's central bank to speak at a high-level conference, the Bank of England's chief economist said there were two ways for Threadneedle Street to bring UK inflation back to the government's 2% target.