The Bank of England has held interest rates at 5.25% for the third time in a row and indicated that cuts are unlikely in the coming months. Governor Andrew Bailey stressed there is "still more to do" in policymakers' efforts to get inflation down.
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00:00 Well, our job is to achieve the 2% inflation target sustainably. Now, we're making good
00:07 progress. Inflation has come down from 11% to where it is today, just over 4.5%, and
00:12 it will come down further. But we have to achieve it sustainably. So there is more to
00:17 do. So I'm encouraged by where we are, but we have got more to do to get to that target,
00:22 and that's what we will do.