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Meanwhile, the UK election has brought few surprises. Rishi Sunak’s campaign has failed to close the gap on Labour as stronger polling for Reform shows the Conservatives losing support.

Given that a manifesto is a plan for a party’s economic and social policy, it’s all you have outside of the emotional, high octane, divisive language used to coerce your vote.

While the headline figure looks promising, under the bonnet things are more complicated. Services inflation, which is seen as a better gauge of domestic inflationary pressures than the headline figure, remains far too high at 5.7%.

The FOMC meeting came off the back of a decent CPI print. May’s inflation data came in softer than consensus expectations with headline CPI decelerating slightly to 3.3% versus 3.4% in April.

In monthly terms, CPI was 0.3% (consensus: 0.1%), compared to 0.6% in March. Similarly, core CPI inflation (ex-energy, food, alcohol and tobacco) came in at 3.9% (consensus: 3.6%) vs 4.2% in March.