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UK households, according to a monthly consumer confidence survey, before Wednesday’s official figures, which are likely to show inflation remaining stubbornly high. Amid fears of higher interest rates owing to increased fuel prices after
UK inflation could go as high as 6% in the worst-case scenario. Although inflation has fallen significantly since the October 2022 high, prices have not fallen. They have just been rising less quickly. Inflation
2023 amid fears of inflation going over 3% this year. The French central bank’s governor, Emmanuel Moulin, Macron’s former chief of staff, predicted “persistent” coming inflation. He may have noticed that container shipping
UK. Inflation is now expected to be higher this year due to the war and higher energy costs could also slow down the economy as people and businesses have less money to spend. Inflation could
2023, amid the mounting economic fallout from the Iran war. It also reflects the situation in the US, after data on Friday showed [consumer confidence there fell to a fresh record low](https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/may/08/oil-us-iran-ceasefire-uk-house-prices-food-prices-jobs-report-pound-bonds-elections-latest-news-updates)
2023 and a BBC [poll](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c93jvpjwdezo) this year found that more than half of people in the country opposed it, despite a more than 10% fall in road casualties in the subsequent
UK’s [all-time temperature record](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/25/uk-heat-may-temperature-record-weather) for May, with scorching highs of close to 35C. ## In depth: ‘Putin has broken the unwritten contract he had with the population’ ![Russian president Vladimir Putin
inflated by avoiding it: “One of the ways that enables the far right to do that is if there is a vacuum because no one else is talking about these issues in an evidenced