The United Kingdom’s inflation-fuelled cost-of-living crisis is set to “cut lives short” and “significantly widen the wealth-health gap”, according to a study published by open access journal BMJ Public Health on Monday. Modelling conducted for the study predicted that the proportion of people ...

UK inflation increased unexpectedly to 10.4 per cent in February, marking the first time inflation has increased in the past four months, according to the Office for National Statistics. The increase in the rate of inflation came as a surprise to most economists, who were predicting that the ...