	lawson expects  rate fall soon u k chancellor of the exchequer nigel lawson said he expected british  rates to fall soon in response to his fiscal budget but he did not say by how much i would be very surprised if there is not a very early further fall in  rates lawson said in a radio interview analysts said they foresaw u k base rates falling as early as today by as much as one full percentage point after lawson s announcement yesterday that the public sector borrowing requirement in fiscal and was to fall to pct of gdp or some four billion stg british banks base lending rates fell a half percentage point on march to the current pct reuter 
