Mark Carney finally gets it: the real risk is a Brexit boom

It is possible that Mark Carney is not quite the last person to notice that the post-Brexit economy is positively booming. Jean-Claude Junker might be too busy working out new ways to ‘punish’ Britain to have paid attention to the statistics. Gina Miller is possibly working on some bizarre High Court action to keep us in the EU. There might even be a leader writer somewhere at the FT who is still worrying away about the collapse of the economy. But just about everyone else has woken up to the fact that ever since we voted to leave the EU, the British economy, far from falling off a cliff, seems to have got markedly better.

So Carney may not be absolutely the last person to the party. Still, as Governor of the Bank of England, and the bloke who is meant to know this stuff, you would sort of hope he was a bit quicker on the uptake.