The Bank of England raises the Bank Rate at its next policy decision.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 12% by 7 Feb 2027. Full reasoning from every model.

WillHappen.ai · Accepted Answer

12% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2027-02-07.

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Gemini (Google): 38% — The MPC's next move turns on whether upcoming wage and services CPI prints show persistence demanding a breach above 4.0%. The 9-member MPC split narrowly at recent meetings and signaled that further tightening requires sustained inflation persistence. Market pricing and historical pauses at round policy rates suggest a preference to hold and assess cumulative lag effects in December. A sharp upside shock in November regular pay growth above 5% would immediately flip the committee consensus back toward a hike.

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Claude (Anthropic): 4% — BoE is on a cutting/holding path with inflation easing toward target, a hike reversal would require a major upside shock. Context framing a Nov 4 hike to 4% appears inconsistent with the broader 2025-2026 BoE trajectory of gradual rate cuts amid cooling UK inflation. MPC has leaned dovish through 2025-2026 as inflation retreats from post-pandemic highs, making an immediate reversal to hiking unlikely. A hike would require a sharp unexpected inflation resurgence (e.g., sterling collapse, energy shock, wage-price spiral) before the Feb 2027 meeting.

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GPT (OpenAI): 4% — The premise is temporally inconsistent: a 4% Bank Rate and the cited November 4 hike belong to 2022, not 2026. The MPC would need to raise at its next scheduled meeting, but the supplied context is about the 3 November 2022 decision. By November 2026, the Bank Rate and inflation outlook will almost certainly differ materially from the stale 2022 setup. I would revise sharply if the intended forecast date were November 2022, when further tightening was a plausible near-term outcome.

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Grok (xAI): 18% — Whether post-Nov-4 data force a second consecutive hike at the December MPC. MPC hiked to 4% on 4 Nov 2026; next decision is ~17 Dec, so only six weeks of new CPI/wage prints. Back-to-back hikes are rare once Bank Rate is already restrictive; 1997-2024 sample shows them mainly in 2022-23 inflation spike. A CPI print still >4% or accelerating private-sector pay would flip the vote; otherwise they pause.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 6% — This turns on whether UK inflation has re-accelerated enough by the 17 December 2026 MPC meeting to force a hike. The MPC's next scheduled decision is 17 December 2026, and Bank Rate has been held at 4% since November 2025 as CPI fell toward target. With UK CPI near 2% and unemployment drifting up, the nine-member committee has been voting 7-2 or 8-1 to hold, not hike. A December hike would require a fresh inflation shock before the meeting; a hot November CPI print on 16 December is the one thing that could flip it.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 58% — Forward guidance after the Nov 4 hike signals intent, but consecutive hikes depend on December data and MPC vote split. The explicit warning that 'inflation remains elevated' immediately post-hike is classic forward guidance for further tightening. Base rate for consecutive BoE hikes in a tightening cycle is roughly 60-70%, but a fresh hike just 6 weeks prior slightly lowers it. A shift would come if November CPI data (released ~Dec 17) shows a sharp drop, giving doves on the MPC cover to pause.

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