Economics
1990s Lesson: Recession Is The Price of Curbing U.K. Inflation
- A living standards squeeze is inevitable, Lamont says
- U.K. inflation now running at hottest in three decades
A young mother outside a closed Job Centre in 1991.
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“Rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying.”