Are there too many yes men on the MPC?

This article reports that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has remained significantly more consensual than their predecessors, with an average "maverick rating" of just under three compared with nearly five among previous members. This means that there have been as many unanimous votes in the past year as there were in the four-year period from January 1998 to January 2002, it says.

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