EU’s inflation is higher than in Brexit Britain and was higher in every month last year
Another inconvenient truth for pro-EU Rejoiners, revealed by Facts4EU.Org

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Latest official figures show how much better the UK has been doing than the EU
On Thursday the EU updated its latest inflation figures (for January), showing that the bloc is still suffering inflation in double digits. Meanwhile the newly independent UK is down to 8.8%.
Below we report the performance of the UK and the EU when it comes to the official inflation figure, CPIH, (which includes housing costs and is the headline figure used by the EU’s official statistics agency and also used by the UK’s Office for National Statistics). We also compare food price inflation.
Brexit Britain is significantly outperforming the EU on inflation
Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary
1. Annual inflation figures for January 2023
- UK : 8.8%
- EU : 10.0%
[Sources: Office for National Statistics and EU Commission (Eurostat)]
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2. Annual inflation month-by-month since January last year
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[Sources: Office for National Statistics and EU Commission (Eurostat)]
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But what about food price inflation?
When it comes to our daily lives, probably the most noticeable change in our cost of living hits us when we go supermarket shopping.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org therefore drilled down into the latest figures and compared the rise in prices of food in the UK with the average rise in the EU.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary
3. Food price inflation since January last year
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[Sources: Office for National Statistics and EU Commission (Eurostat)]
Observations
Where is “Brexit Britain, the basket case?”
When reviewing the information above, we must once again remind readers that British voters were told the UK economy would pretty much be a (shopping) basket case by now. The official facts tell a different story, however.
The reason Brexit Facts4EU publishes information such as that above is simple. The BBC won’t, so someone has to.
UK’s economy to fall off which particular cliff, exactly?
Far from the economy of the newly independent United Kingdom ‘falling off a cliff’, it might be said in an understated British manner that the UK has more than held its own.
Had the UK economy ‘fallen off a cliff’ - as we were threatened it would by the Remainer Establishment - there is no doubt in our minds that large parts of the Remainer media such as the BBC would be letting us know on a daily basis.
As it is, the UK has topped the tables as the G7’s fastest-growing economy for the last two years running. And in our latest example of key metrics, prices are rising less fast in the UK than in the EU27 – and this has been happening for the past 12 months.
But what about food price inflation, splutter Rejoiners?
When Facts4EU researches and publishes reports on one key set of statistics, typically Rejoiners come back with a comment on a different set of data. For example if we had only quoted the headline rate of inflation above, Rejoiners would have spluttered: “Ah yes, but what about food price inflation? This has been going through the roof in the last year and it’s because of Brexit!”
As we have shown above, once again Brexit Britain has consistently performed better than the EU27 when it comes to the rising cost of our weekly shopping. This is not an opinion and nor is it one of the Rejoiners’ favourites: a forecast. It is fact.
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[ Sources: EU Commission official statistics agency | UK Office for National Statistics ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sat 04 Mar 2023
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