The target inflation figure of 2%, like many other targets of this Government, is a figure plucked out of the deep blue sky.
It is preposterous to think that if inflation in the rest of the world increases that somehow the United Kingdom will not be affected because the former Chancellor in his great wisdom has decreed that it should not rise above 2%.
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