The Latest Breaking News from Inflation

Primark issues warning over price of its clothes

The retailer has warned shoppers to expect 'selective price increases'

Wales Online · Apr 26, 2022

DWP to move 2.6million Brits to Universal Credit - full list of winners and losers

We've put together an explainer guide to the managed migration of 2.6million Brits from legacy benefits to Universal Credit. Here's everything you need to know

Daily Mirror · Apr 26, 2022

Up to 900,000 DWP benefits claimants to have payments frozen as part of Universal Credit move

As many as 900,000 households across the UK will be left worse off financially as part of the UK Government's plan to move legacy benefit claimants over to Universal Credit

Edinburgh Live · Apr 26, 2022

Primark to hike prices on clothes as business costs rise

The fashion chain has warned it will make "selective" increases as pressures from inflation start to bite

Birmingham Post · Apr 26, 2022

Back to the 70s: Primark to put prices up as boss warns on inflation spiral

FRESH fears about how bad inflation could get were stoked today when Primark boss George Weston warned we are “back in the 1970s” and an influential data group said food prices are rising at the fastest for 11 years.

Evening Standard · Apr 26, 2022

Tesco unveils huge Clubcard shake-up affecting anyone with points or vouchers

The supermarket giant, famed for its Clubcard promotions, will no longer send out paper statements or vouchers to selected customers under a shake-up to be unveiled in the coming months

Daily Mirror · Apr 26, 2022

Lori Borgman: Living in the days of less is more

The vocabulary intended to soften the blows of blistering inflation is a testimony to creativity. Economists keep talking about consumers experiencing shrinkflation. They don't mean consumers are shrinking (although you do look amazingly trim); they mean the products we buy are shrinking, but the prices are not.

Tribune News Service · Apr 26, 2022

Government borrowing overshoots forecasts in March as interest payments jump by 50%

Government borrowing more than halved last year as Covid-19 support schemes and health investments wound down, but interest payments on the UK’s debt pile are rising fast.

Evening Standard · Apr 26, 2022

Asian shares advance on back of rally on Wall Street

Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks stormed back from sharp losses to log strong gains

The Independent UK · Apr 26, 2022

NZ opposition leader popular but battling

New Zealand's alternative prime minister Chris Luxon has battled his way through a series of interviews on tax policy, Maori health and diversity in his party.

AAP · Apr 26, 2022