If the new Truss government implements a freeze on domestic gas and electricity prices then inflation may peak at around 11% in October this year, rather than 14.5% in January next year as we currently forecast. The economy is still likely to enter recession, but the peak-to-trough fall in real GDP may be more like 0.5% than our current forecast of 1.0%.
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