Business columnist Terry McCrann says the “main driver” of inflation in United Kingdom is higher energy prices.
The British Central Bank recently lifted interest rates by half a per cent, the country’s largest interest rate hike in 27 years.
“Because energy is the fundamental input into everything,” Mr McCrann told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
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