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Jack Jones examines the response to the ONS' inflation consultation

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Apparently the Office for National Statistics staff was taken aback by the passion stirred up by its consultation on the RPI.

The view was this was only a technical exercise to correct statistical anomalies that had resulted from a previous tweaking of formulae used to measure inflation. But clearly the rancour that re...

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