It is increasingly obvious that price pressures in the UK have simply lagged their international counterparts in this cycle, and are likely to fade at a relatively comparable pace in the early new year. All-items inflation rose just 3.9 percent in the year to November, the slowest pace since September 2021, and core – which has trailed headline inflation in all major developed economies, fell to 5.1 percent from 5.7 in the prior month – led by a slowdown in services growth.

Consumer Price Indices, annual % change