Following the global banking crisis that started in 2008, the yield on UK government gilts has been on a steady decline, with the EU referendum in 2016 and the impact of the Covid pandemic in 2020 compounding this decline even further.However, more recent events both globally and domestically have seen a very sharp reversal in UK government gilt yields, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which brought about high global inflation and the ill-fated September 2022 "mini"-Budget from former prime minister Liz Truss.In October 2022, UK government...