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I'm really pleased to say a friend of this program and an old friend of mine

Danny Blanch Flack enjoyed us now Dartmouth College Professor of Economics and

former member of the M. P.CPC at the Bank of England.

Danny, your thoughts as we switch from 7-2 to 6-3 at the BOE.

Well, that's really quite a surprise. So if you're Andy Halderin, you have to explain to me and to other commentators why last month and the month before you voted against the rate rise and since then the data

all worth every piece of data that exists has got worse.

So the question simply is did you make a mistake then or you make a mistake now or both?

The answer clearly is that the economy is flowing.

Industrial production figures got a bit pretty bad, no wage growth at all, Brexit having a major impact on my investment.

So I'm having a chance, because the decision is just tough.

But this is completely astonishing and how you could possibly vote for a rate rise in these circumstances seems to me to be a major puzzle

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