By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – Facing pressure to curb surging inflation, the Bank of England looks set to raise interest rates again on Thursday and signal further unwinding of its pandemic stimulus, including a gradual reversal of its huge bond-buying plan. Twenty-nine of 45 economists polled by Reuters late last month said the BoE would raise Bank Rate to 0.5% from 0.25% at its February meeting, hot on the heels of December’s rate hike, the first by a major central bank since the pandemic. [ECILT/GB] It would mark the first back-to-back borrowing cost increases by the BoE since 2004, refl…