The post-pandemic cost of living crisis is continuing to make life difficult in Britain this summer – even after a degree of stability returned to the international energy market, allowing domestic heating bills to climb down after a long winter of sky-high prices.
With inflation lodged stubbornly at 8.7 per cent, new woes have emerged for mortgage holders battling high interest rates and in the shape of bloated prices in the supermarket aisles, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) putting food inflation at 18.4 per cent in May.
