August 2025 – Inflation rate - Latest News

Source: Office of National Statistics and BBC

The inflation rate was at 3.6% up to July 2025. This remains stubbornly still above the target of 2% and on par with previous months but continues the downward trend from highs of 11.1% in October 2022. The main two contributing factors for the surge in recent years have been mostly down to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the war in Ukraine and the knock on effects to the overall supply chain. The UK initially lagged behind many of it’s other counterparts in the West in being slower to tackle high inflation but things appear to be going in the right direction now although many households are feeling the effects of the cost of living crisis which has been a result of high inflationary pressures.