Budget 2013: Chancellor revises BoE remit

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The Chancellor has announced an updated remit for the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, in a move to boost growth through "monetary activism".

The Chancellor maintained the "primacy" of the Bank of England's inflation target of 2%, but said the Bank would now have to clearly set out the trade-offs it has made to achieve this. He said: ...

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