UK inflation dipped to 2.5% year-on-year in December, primarily due to lower hotel prices and easing tobacco costs, despite persistent pressure from rising fuel and car prices.
Grant Fitzner, chief economist of the ONS, noted that while there were declines in hotel prices and a slowdown in tobacco price rises, increases in fuel and second-hand car prices have offset these drops, demonstrating a mixed inflationary landscape.
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