Funding advisers Hargreaves Lansdown have a reasonably slick media operation today. This despatched me this remark and desk this morning:

Runaway inflation has ravaged the quantity of cash folks have left on the finish of the month. In Yorkshire and The Humber solely round one in 5 have sufficient money on the finish of the month to be resilient, and within the North East, and West Midlands solely round one in 4 do. By the top of 2023, inflation could have taken a horrible toll. The proportion with sufficient surplus money to be resilient will drop in each area. It is going to be round or under one in 5 in eight out of 11 areas, however will fall furthest in London the South East, the South West and Scotland.

All such measures are, after all, estimates. However what this analysis reveals is a persistent loss of economic resilience proper throughout the UK impacting giant components of the inhabitants. The results can’t be good: if the goal of politics is to alleviate folks from concern the precise reverse is going on proper now.

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