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UK inflation stays at 3.8% as food price rises slow for first time since March – business live

Inflation figures raise chance of December interest rate cut; gold rises after biggest sell-off in five yearsRachel Reeves has blamed a heavier than anticipated blow from Brexit and austerity for forcing her to take action to balance the books at next month’s budget.In her clearest attempt to draw Brexit into the framing of her imminent tax and spending decisions, the chancellor said leaving the EU was turning out to have caused more damage than official forecasters had previously outlined.The OBR, I think, are going to be pretty frank about this – that things like austerity, the cuts to capital spending and Brexit have had a bigger impact on our economy than was even projected back then.That is why we are unashamedly rebuilding our relations with the EU to reduce some of those costs, that in my view were needlessly added to businesses since 2016 and since we formally left a few years ago. Continue reading...

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