Comment: It has been clear for some time that London — the city that Rishi Sunak can barely bring himself to mention in his Budget and Spring Statement speeches — is being especially badly hit by the rapidly escalating cost of living crisis. By JonPrynn
This crisis has been on a slow fuse for many months now, often overlooked amid the daily hubbub of the Covid pandemic, the partygate scandal and the war in Ukraine. It now feels close to out of control. Next week the Office for National Statistics will reveal that prices rose more than eight per cent in the year to April, a rate of inflation not seen since 1991.
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