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2022.05.18 14:07 GMT+8

April: UK inflation jumps to 40-year high of 9%

Updated 2022.05.18 20:40 GMT+8
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The UK's inflation hit a 40-year high of 9 percent in April, the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday. 

Consumer prices in April were 9 percent higher than a year earlier, a jump from 7 percent in March and the highest inflation rate since March 1982, said the office.

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