Airfares, bread, cereal – what’s behind this fall within the inflation fee?revealed at 07:30 GMT
Mitchell Labiak
Enterprise reporter
Meat, motor fuels, and airfares have been picked out by the ONS as among the issues that helped the inflation destiny fall.
Drivers on the pump could have observed the common worth of petrol fell by 3.1p per litre between December 2025 and January 2026, in contrast with an increase of 0.8p per litre the 12 months earlier than.
In the meantime, the sample of airfares rising in December after which falling in January was “much less pronounced than in earlier years”, the ONS says.
A change in meals costs additionally helped to push inflation down. Over the month of January, meals costs fell – serving to to decrease the speed of worth rises for the 12 months to January. Meat in addition to bread and cereals have been two of the largest drivers of this.
