Today, figures showed that inflation has increased by 3.8% – the highest figure in a year and a half.

This is more than economists were predicting – but it won’t be news to the people across the country who have seen the price of food keep climbing , their household bills go up and up, and other essentials becoming increasingly unaffordable.

The cost of food has risen by nearly 40% since 2021 – a staggering rise with which wages have failed to keep up.

The economy clearly isn’t working. Everyone can see it: our high streets are full of shuttered shops, everything is expensive, and nothing works.

Neither is the plan that Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have stuck doggedly to since being elected, to “go for growth” at all costs and hope that that will do the trick.

While cost

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