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    UK inflation rate rises to 3.8%, latest ONS figures say
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    UK inflation rate rises to 3.8%, latest ONS figures say

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    1. AttitudeSimilar9347 on

      The triple lock means that next year the state pension will become taxable. Pretty wild!

    4. sbourgenforcer on

      FYI, inflation for July 2025 was only 0.1%. The annualised figure has ticked up slightly, as the -0.1% recorded in July 2024 has now dropped out of the rolling 12-month period.

    5. Keracus on

      Well, at least I can keep playing the game of ‘How much will my local milk and cheese go up this quarter’.

    7. elegance78 on

      Let’s cut the interest rates to keep the idiocy of property fetish alive for few more months and keep zombie companies going…

    8. -starchy- on

      When record low birth rates come to destroy the Ponzi scheme that is UK pensions we will all suffer. And people wonder why immigration is at record highs… If birth rates are at record lows then you need a solution. That’s immigration. It helps that particular cultures are also more likely to have bigger families etc. This is the UK’s current solution to dealing with the future collapse of pensions lol.

    9. RepresentativeOk3943 on

      I still don’t understand why the BoE reduced interest rates. They knew this before making the decision.

    10. OSUBrit on

      Largely in line with forecasts. Not good numbers but this is unsurprising. Cue everywhere acting like this is out of the blue.

    11. Automatic-Yak4555 on

      Keep dishing above inflation increases to pensions and benefits and those recipients will just keep on paying the higher prices without thinking.

    12. xelah1 on

      The ONS’s Main Points from [their publication](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/bulletins/consumerpriceinflation/july2025):

      > * The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) rose by 4.2% in the 12 months to July 2025, up from 4.1% in the 12 months to June.
      > * On a monthly basis, CPIH was little changed in July 2025, the same as in July 2024.
      > * The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) rose by 3.8% in the 12 months to July 2025, up from 3.6% in the 12 months to June.
      > * On a monthly basis, CPI rose by 0.1% in July 2025, compared with a fall of 0.2% in July 2024.
      > * Transport, particularly air fares, made the largest upward contribution to the monthly change in both CPIH and CPI annual rates; housing and household services, particularly owner occupiers’ housing costs, made a large, partially offsetting, downward contribution in CPIH.
      > * Core CPIH (CPIH excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) rose by 4.2% in the 12 months to July 2025, down slightly from 4.3% in the 12 months to June; the CPIH goods annual rate rose from 2.4% to 2.7%, while the CPIH services annual rate was unchanged at 5.2%.
      > * Core CPI (CPI excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) rose by 3.8% in the 12 months to July 2025, up slightly from 3.7% in the 12 months to June; the CPI goods annual rate rose from 2.4% to 2.7%, while the CPI services annual rate rose from 4.7% to 5.0%.
      > * We have identified a minor error in the imputation of missing seasonal item indices. This error has no impact on headline CPI or CPIH annual and monthly growth rates. The Retail Prices Index (RPI) is also unaffected. For more details see Section 8: Data sources and quality.

    15. 6footgeeks on

      There goes the nurses pay prise. It’s now below inflation no matter how the government spin it.