She remained, to the end, hostile to central-bank independence, regularly rejecting the advice of her chancellors to allow the Bank of England to control interest rates. She feared that independent central banks would serve the interests of their banking “clients,” rather than those of the economy as a whole.
撒切尔决不是央行行长之友。她到最后都反对央行的独立，拒绝手下大臣关于让英格兰银行控制利率的建议。她担心独立央行会屈从其银行“客户”的利益，而不顾及整个经济的利益。