OPINION - The Standard View: Inflation – the incumbent killer – has still not entirely gone away

It is the incumbent killer, from Joe Biden to Rishi Sunak: inflation. Voters will put up with stubborn unemployment and low growth, but they absolutely hate rising prices. Labour has had the good fortune of coming to office as inflation had fallen back to target, a far cry from the double digit price rises of a few years ago. But the British economy is not out of the woods yet.