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To say NI and pensions is part of the issue causing inflation is ludicrous. What we have is an extra cost for imports as well as a supply issue. Add in the price gouging cost. Economist have been saying this for over a year now.
All of this will be even more visible when the import checks come into force in October. If the EU imposes biometric checks also, god only know what will happen.
Raising interest will put unnecessary pressure on already struggling companies, which will result in job losses. Rents will increase as landlords will take advantage as much as possible. Presently 81,000 homes are in arrears with their payments, that is a third of all mortgages. Predictions are for that figure to be 140,000 at the end of next year.
During periods of inflation reducing or deincentivising spending are the ways to reduce demand. Inflation in restaurants and recreation, air fares are not down to these factors that you list, they are down to there being more demand due to some groups of people having more money after building up savings and paying off debt in the pandemic when they couldn’t do these things. The way to reduce demand for these things are additional taxes on groups that are spending on them now.
Two of the most inflated costs are food and energy. Essentials that demand cannot be reduced beyond a certain point without people dying.
Food is a consequence of Brexit and the increasing cost of importing, energy is a consequence of all energy prices being artificially high due to the price of gas.
There are ways to fix both of those, but they aren't popular with Tories.
Core inflation strips out food and energy and is going up in the Uk and down pretty much everywhere else.