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The Financial Times reports that the governor of the Bank of England has conceded there are “very big lessons to learn” after the central bank failed to forecast the persistently high inflation of the last 18 months. Speaking before the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on Tuesday, Andrew Bailey said the Bank had taken a “conscious decision” to reduce the role of its forecasting model when setting interest rates because the model was not delivering sufficiently accurate results.