Tories: Inflation figures are of government’s making

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Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride describes Wednesday’s inflation figures of 3.4% as “pretty disappointing” saying it is “of this government’s making” after putting up National Insurance for employers in the last budget. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Pretty disappointing. 3.4% is the highest level it's been since this government came to office.

00:06When we left office it wasn't up at 3.4%, it was down at 2%.

00:10Of course that's going to mean higher food prices for people up and down the country.

00:15And it's a situation of this government's making because they put up, for example, taxes, national insurance,

00:20some of which was passed through by way of higher prices, went out and borrowed a lot of money,

00:24spent a lot of money and kept inflation higher as a consequence.

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