Peter Dowd MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to today’s inflation figures by the ONS, said:

“Today’s inflation figures are further bad news for working households. Inflation remains around a five year high, while real earnings are still lower than in 2010, following seven years of Tory economic failure.

“The next Labour government will introduce a £10 per hour Real Living Wage to tackle the wages squeeze, and build a high wage, high skill economy for the many, not the few.”