Why it's not quite back to the 70s with talk of food price controls
Briefly

A cost-of-living crisis.Pressure on the government to step in to help hard-pressed consumers.Calls for supermarkets to cut prices on staple food items.Substitute Rishi Sunak for Ted Heath, step into a time capsule and journey back to Britain in 1972.Let's be clear: ministers are not considering imposing the sort of statutory price controls on a loaf of bread, a pint of milk or a bar of soap that were put in place half a century ago.
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