Fuel and clothes price rises push inflation up to 0.7%

Rises in the costs of fuel and clothes pushed up the rate of inflation to 0.7 per cent in March, new figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown. Inflation had been as low as 0.4 per cent in February due to unusually large drops in the clothing and footwear costs but was now beginning to grow again as the UK edged out of the Covid pandemic.