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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 16 March 2021 - Budget, easing of lockdown and vaccinations drive optimism
Description: "The Ipsos MORI Political Monitor which measures confidence in the UK showed that 43% of the population believe that the economy will improve in the next twelve months.
The survey showed that confidence is at its higher level since 2015, ironically just as the Brexit campaigns were beginning.
While that is hardly surprising, the main thing to take away is the belief that the Government is dealing with the current crisis in a manner that will lead the country back to some kind of normality.
Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, spoke early yesterday morning about his confidence that...