Mel Stride on food price inflation, Budget debate 27 November 2025

The statement

Labour is the party that talks about resolving poverty; it is a disgrace that food inflation in the last set of figures went up way above the headline rate, from 4.5% to 4.9%.

Mel Stride, 27 November 2025. Source

What the sources report

• Office for National Statistics, series D7G8 (CPI ANNUAL RATE 01 : FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 2015=100), release of 2026-09-15 reports CPI annual rate: food and non-alcoholic beverages (September 2025): 4.5%^src
• Office for National Statistics, series D7G8 (CPI ANNUAL RATE 01 : FOOD AND NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES 2015=100), release of 2026-09-15 reports CPI annual rate: food and non-alcoholic beverages (October 2025): 4.9%^src
• Office for National Statistics, series D7G7 (CPI ANNUAL RATE 00: ALL ITEMS 2015=100), release of 2026-09-15 reports CPI annual rate, all items (October 2025): 3.6%^src
• Office for National Statistics, series D7G8 reports CPI annual rate: food and non-alcoholic beverages (August 2026, latest): 1.3%^src

Notes

The ONS reports food and non-alcoholic beverage inflation of 4.5% in September 2025 and 4.9% in October 2025.

The ONS reports all-items CPI inflation of 3.6% in October 2025.

The latest ONS figure for food inflation is 1.3% in August 2026.