Boris Johnson ‘choosing to let people struggle’ with cost of living says Keir Starmer –as it happened

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Anne-Marie Trevelyan, the international trade secretary, has warned that inflation will experience a further bump" before prices are likely to stabilise.

In a Q&A after delivering a speech on green trade at Bloomberg's HQ in London, she said countries around the world were facing a a global battle against inflation". She went on:

This is something we have to tackle across the board.

And the worry we always have is that inflation tends to have two bumps to it.