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By Lars Mucklejohn Rishi Sunak is keen to tell Brits inflation has fallen – but the public doesn’t appear to have noticed, a new Bank of England survey suggests. Though inflation is nearing the government’s two per cent target the average person in mid-May believed it was at 5.5 per cent, according to the survey. Ipsos, on behalf of the central bank, interviewed a sample of Britons aged between 16 and 75 last month, when the latest inflation reading was 3.2 per cent in March. Later figures showed inflation fell to 2.3 per cent in April, with Sunak shortly afterwards calling the general electio…

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