Political pointers

LETTER - Letter published in the London Financial Times on 24 June from Maurice Fitzpatrick.

Click here to read "A flawed independence".

Sir, Christopher Huhne ("A flawed independence", June 20) correctly points out that the 10-year government bond interest rate is some 1 per cent higher in real terms in the UK than it is in the eurozone.

He ascribes this to the fact that, while the European Central Bank is genuinely independent of political control, the Bank of England is subject to two potential

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