{"id":593865,"date":"2026-05-20T06:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593865\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:28:10","slug":"uk-inflation-rate-falls-more-than-expected-to-2-8-in-year-to-april-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/593865\/","title":{"rendered":"UK inflation rate falls more than expected to 2.8% in year to April – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"Expect a lull before the storm continuespublished at 06:55 BST<\/p>\n

06:55 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Dharshini David
Deputy economics editor<\/p>\n

Price pressures may have heated up in some areas – but a fall in the domestic energy price cap in April, set some time before the Iran conflict started, may likely have helped keep a lid on inflation as well as bills last month.<\/p>\n

But other things were creeping up – petrol prices hit 158p per litre in April – up almost a fifth compared to before the war, while diesel rose was up a third as global oil prices rose.<\/p>\n

And higher costs will continue to filter through to other items – from food to flights – but some impacts will take months to come through. <\/p>\n

So this is likely an inflation lull before the storm resumes. <\/p>\n

Economists predict that inflation won’t get anywhere near the double-digit rates seen just a few years ago – but how high it goes will go depends on the as yet uncertain path of the conflict. <\/p>\n

For most, incomes are still outpacing inflation, and the support the chancellor is preparing to unveil may help some, albeit, we expect a very limited number. But things will feel more stretched in the coming months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expect a lull before the storm continuespublished at 06:55 BST 06:55 BST Dharshini DavidDeputy economics editor Price pressures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-593865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}