Quote Originally Posted by The Bloop View Post
Why would Rishi make halving inflation one of his 5 pledges, if he couldn't control it anyway?
For exactly the same reason that the opposition blamed them for inflation even though they were very little to do with it. Cos that's politics, unfortunately.

It could have been different. We could have had some honesty from when inflation started rising after Covid, but party's will always play political games won't they.