London: Thanasis Gavos
The greatest pressure on their consumer power since 1982 has been faced by the people of the United Kingdom, as confirmed by the data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which show that in April inflation rose to 9%high 40 years old.
According to the ONS and the government, the main factor that has pushed inflation to such heights is the decision of the independent regulator Ofgem to increase the energy bill from the 23 million households with basic tariffs from the beginning of April. variable charges by 69 693 per year (an increase of 54% to 97 1,971 per year).
The increase was decided due to pressure on the energy industry due to the war in Ukraine, a war that has led to an international shortage of fertilizers, with Russia being the largest exporter in the world. This in turn has an impact on food prices.
According to the ONS, the increases in April compared to 12 months ago are as follows:
- Natural gas 95.5%
- Electric 53.5%
- Motion fuels 32.4%
- Furniture 10.7%
- 8% focus
- Food and non-alcoholic beverages 6.7%
In terms of fuel, a new record price was recorded on Tuesday at British gas stations, ie 167.64 pence per liter for gasoline (1.98 euros) average and 180.88 pence for diesel (almost 2.14 euros).
In the case of food, indicative increases on an annual basis from the product pricing website trolley.co.uk are the following:
- sunflower oil + 39%
- milk (semi-skimmed) + 15.3%
- butter + 14%
- chicken (fillet) + 40%
- eggs + 7.9%
- pasta + 16.2%
- baby diapers + 17.8%
- toilet paper + 11%
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