The Latest Breaking News from Inflation

That it was predicted makes it no less painful. Inflation has hit a 40-year high, driven largely by soaring fuel costs. And prices are set to rise further still. Figures from the Office for National Statistics show inflation reached nine per cent in April, its highest level since 1982. The…

And there's a new county hot spot where price increases have been the highest and another record breaking national average

Providers are supporting growing cohort of first-time food bank users, people struggling while in work, and an increasing number of children.

Australian households are suffering the worst cost-of-living squeeze in more than two decades, with real wages falling at the fastest pace since 2001.

Prime minister says he is against rising taxes – but then agrees to look at ‘all sensible measures‘

The new president will have to tackle insecurity, rising inflation, severe drought – and reunite a fractured government

Margaret Thatcher was PM and unemployment stood at 10.4%

The average price of a house in London is now £523,666, after prices rose by 4.8 per cent in the year to March

Around nine in 10 (87 per cent) of adults in Britain have reported their cost of living increased in March alone

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has urged the Prime Minister to stop the “hokey-cokey” and back Labour’s plan to bring in a windfall tax on energy firms at PMQs.

Latest figures show how much more you're spending on food and outside the home