The chart below is the movement of two measures of inflation in the U.K.
As you can see they move in the same way with the light blue line moving either up or down faster than the dark blue line (which lags it).
PPI is the measure of Producer Prices, a monthly survey of the changes in the price of goods bought and sold. At the peak this was above 11% and is now down at around 2% so near pre-pandemic level on average.
The CPI (dark blue line) measures the increase in prices consumers are paying and is still up above 8% but will follow PPI down and quickly.
So yes, consumer inflation in the U.K. is still very high, but if the chart below holds true – not for much longer.
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