Great Britain faces a protracted recession and the deepest fall in standard of living on recordBank of England warns

Britain will plunge into year- long decline this fall in which households will hit at the deepest fall in standard of living on record bank of England warned.

AT one of his darkest ratings of UK economic outlook, the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) said that inflation will now peak at 13.3 percent. in in final three months of this is year as average electricity bills have tripled from £1,200 in 2021 to £3,500 by October.

economy is now projected to decline in five quarters in a row for in first time since global financial crash of 2008.

The inflation forecast was up sharply compared to the predicted 9.4% just three months ago, with prices now on track to continue rising fast during 2023.

It means cost of life crisis will continue for next year but only begin facilitate in 2024, according to the bank latest forecasts. Real it is expected that household income decline about 5 percent on average, over two years – the deepest drop since the start of records in 1960.

Terrible numbers will cause anxiety for whoever becomes next prime minister.

Liz Truss vowed to cut billions in taxes in sentence win over Members of the Conservative Party and Rishi Sunak criticized the plan as financially irresponsible.

None of the candidates pledged out detailed plans for how they would support families struggling through a rapidly deteriorating cost of life crisis.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation Chief Economist Rebecca McDonald said: “We already know 7 million low-income families were forced to sacrifice food, heating and even showers. year because they couldn’t afford them.

“While government could take a break from acting on in cost of live in an emergency, these families can’t accept holiday from year of financial fear.

“They will wonder why further urgent decisions are needed to protect up family finances ahead of winter is not set yet in place”.

Labor Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: “This is further evidence that the Conservatives have lost control of the situation.” of in economy, with rapid rise in inflation set continue while mortgage and loan rates continue rise.

“As families and retirees worry about how they’re going to pay their bills, conservative leadership candidates travel the country announcing unworkable policies that won’t do anything help people get through this crisis.

Experts say energy costs can rise even further in January, with Investec predicts bills for the average family will now hit £4210 in January, when the Ofgem regulator reviews its price lid.

MPC warned ‘exceptionally large’ happened risk around your latest forecasts, and the situation could worsen further if gas prices move higher Still.

Analysts believe that this scenario is becoming more likely after Russia back deliveries to Europe last months, and governments across the continent began to ration supplies.

Even after economy begins grow, then lies the pain in store, with unemployment set to climb from 3.8% to 6.3% in 2025.

Despite the bleak outlook, the Bank’s nine-member MPC voted eight votes against.one in service of increase in interest rate by 0.5 percent points up to 1.75 percent – highest since January 2009.

Generally, economy contraction of 2.1% is expected, which means that the recession will of comparable in scale to those of In the early 1990s and 1980s, the bank said.

When will the country come out of recession? in 2024 Bank expects growth to remain Near zero over the next year.

Mass increase in inflation will also a hammer public finance, adding billions to government debt and interest payments on bonds indexed for inflation.

Andrew Bailey, bank manager, defended rate increase, arguing that persistent inflation would be “even worse” if interest rates weren’t raised, and that lower-income households would have the hardest time hit.

Chancellor Nadhim Zahavi said: “Turning to cost of life is a top priority and we are taking steps to support people through these tough times with our £37 billion package of help for households, including direct payments of £1,200 for the most vulnerable families and a £400 rebate. on energy bills for each.

“We also taking important steps bring inflation under control with a strong, independent monetary policy, responsible tax and spending decisions and reforms to improve our performance and growth”.

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