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    UK inflation rate falls to 2.8% in year to April – live updates

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    1. ignorant_tomato on

      Obligatory comment that this has nothing to do with Reform and credit should go where credit is due

    3. Horror-Protection225 on

      It’s super annoying that things finally seem to be turning round but we have the effects of Trumps idiotic war barrelling up to meet us.

    5. tiny-robot on

      That sounds suspiciously like good news?

      Surely that shouldn’t be allowed!

    6. notleave_eu on

      Next headline: Why inflation falling means Starmer should resign immediately

    7. spartacle on

      quick.. whilst things are improving someone fire the PM, we can’t have this!

    8. NearbyPrune3411 on

      prices are still up 20% from two years ago but sure glad they’re going up slower now

    9. RaidersGunz on

      Is this good news for people whos fixed rate mortgages are soon coming to an end?

    10. ashyboi5000 on

      Great. This will be the rate unions use to negotiate below for a pay rise, even though every living cost is somehow drastically above inflation.

    13. Jakes_Snake_ on

      No one will believe that number and they are probably right. It’s a technical fudge.

      no one has yet received an energy bill for that month, but have filled up the car. It not winter so no one is going to feel a lower bill until then. Your direct debit is still the same.

      And anyway wait until energy price cap does go up, we now that likely to push inflation back up to 4%. But as I said it a fudge.

    14. HAH-PAH on

      Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have been pulling blinders on the economy of late while keeping under the fiscal rules and this is all under the duress of the Iran war which they rightly stopped us jumping in on.

    15. apoptosis04 on

      Quick, somebody sack Starmer or keep repeating “Starmer out”, we need that for sure! /s

    16. Diablotinto7 on

      I’m relatively new at being grown up so can someone help me out here – is inflation not impacted by rising costs of goods due to our American cousins? Did a sainsburys shop last night and some of the prices of basic goods are still ludicrous (I know it’s not immediately going to jump back down, but it feels like everything is only going one direction this year)

    17. Odd-Law-8723 on

      So we’re finally getting some good news on inflation, but it feels like the calm before the storm with the US trade chaos about to hit us.

    18. BallEnjoyer6 on

      Labour will now try to oust Starmer and we’ll see this reverse. Fuck the right wing media. Fuck the labour left.

    21. amazonwarrior9999 on

      * Real inflation for essentials like housing, energy, food, and transport is running closer to 4.5% while wages stagnate, meaning most workers are getting poorer in real terms despite official CPI figures.
      * Since the late 1990s, London wages have not even doubled while house prices have risen from roughly £79k to £500k, meaning property and rent have massively outpaced human labor.
      * Current projections show average households gaining just £40 in real disposable income across the entire 2024 to 2029 parliament before incomes begin falling again under rising rents, frozen tax thresholds, and persistent inflation.