The Bank of England is watching UK inflation carefully, and the latest official figures show that inflation slowed in April by less than expected to 8.7%.
Britain’s ‘core inflation’ - a measure which doesn’t include volatile components such as energy and food - is the highest of the G7 countries at 6.8% and is going in the wrong direction.
Nationwide building society has warned that rises in mortgage interest rates - closely tied to increases in the Bank of England’s rate that has been raised to try and control inflation - could hit the housing market.
So why is inflation in the UK so stubborn compared to similar countries? Newsnight’s Economics Editor Ben Chu reports.
An interesting article about the nature of policymaking in the Treasury, with Fran Boait arguing that a peculiar mix of economic orthodoxies - in favour of privatisation and yet also committed to "arbitrary fiscal rules" - ensure that the UK under-commits to public investment, to the extent that with have the lowest level of public sector investment in G7.