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Jack Monroe’s thread about the true cost of inflation ‘as it happens to people with the least’ is an important read

Slightly lost in the midst of everything else that’s going on right now was the news this week that inflation rose to 5.4% in December, its highest rate for 30 years.

The 5.4% figure prompted Jack Monroe – the @BootstrapCook – to share some figures about the ‘real cost of inflation as it happens to people with the least’.

And it’s a hugely important and enlightening thread about the real cost of the cost of living price rises.

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https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1483778776697909252?s=20

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And here are just a few of the many things people were saying about it.

Last word to Jack Monroe.

https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1484058688465821698?s=20

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Source Twitter @BootstrapCook