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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Families hit by £150 hike to clothing bills this year as cost of living crisis bites

Families face a £150 hike to their clothing bills over the year as the cost of living crisis deepens, new analysis shows.

The price of clothes and shoes rose by 6.3% between January 2021 and 2022, outstripping the general rise in consumer prices, according to the Office for National Statistics.

If this rise was maintained over the year, a family with two children faces paying £148 more on clothing over the year, Labour analysis has found.

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