Chancellor welcomes falling prices
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The Chancellor has welcomed the latest data from the ONS that shows falling prices in the last two weeks.
This new data bucks the trend of rises prices throughout 2025.
A government spokesman told us that, in the week before Christmas, prices for many vegetables had fallen, as shops offered deals at 5p, 8p and 15p for bags of short dated produce. In addition, there was a measurable fall in the price of advent calendars.
'Since Christmas, there have been dramatic falls in the prices of brandy sauce, mince pies, Christmas crackers, tree decorations, panettone, goose fat, and wrapping paper. Chicken prices have also fallen due to a lack of demand for poultry products in the post Christmas period. And there are early indications that the prices of diaries and calendars will fall in the new year.
'The government very much welcomes this evidence that its policies are delivering for the British people, and that inflation is now well under control. If this positive trend continues then the Prime Minister has promised to come out of hiding to take the credit, and to talk up Labour's chances in the May elections.'