that s up from the previous month, so heading in the wrong direction. core inflation is a measure which excludes volatile components of the inflation basket such as energy and food. this suggests the uk has a particular underlying problem with inflation, making it stickier here than elsewhere. some have even suggested we might be the new sick man of europe, even the developed world, when it comes to rising prices. but is this right, and if so, why? the pet food industry points to a cocktail of uk specific factors making the situation here worse. we take 80% of our raw material from the uk, so we are quite reliant on farming in the united kingdom and that has been a pressure. and then obviously there has been some challenges on getting in raw materials due to transport, you know, brexit hasn t been. so far, it hasn t caused huge problems importing that we have problems importing but we have seen export challenges around export certificates and other issues, the border
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now update parliament on the economic and fiscal context and take a moment first to thank the scottish fiscal commission for the forecast which informs the budget. supply chain bottlenecks, labour market shortages, inflation pressures and rising energy prices are all facing extra pressure on businesses and households trying to recover from the impact of the pandemic. the fiscal commission forecasts a level of long term economic damage to the scottish economy from covid 19 of around 2%. similarto the scottish economy from covid 19 of around 2%. similar to the obr s forecast for the uk economy. this means the long term impact of brexit on the economy will be worse than that caused by covid 19 with the obr attributing a 4% long term reduction in living standards due to the uk s exit from the eu. the impact of brexit hasn t been felt equally across the uk. latest figures from
even though brexit hasn t even happened yet, ireland s prime minister is already feeling the pressure. our nic robertson has our report. reporter: at dublin s port soon to be a frontline managing the outfall of brexit, ireland s prime minister is holding out little hope of a breakthrough with the british prime minister boris johnson when they meet monday. prime minister johnson doesn t have a majority, so i ll be asking him how he can convince us, ireland and the european union, that he actually is capable or has the votes to get a deal through. reporter: the t. shot s inspections sunday seemed intended to bolster his image, protecting ireland s interests as debate over brexit ratchets
country, the brexit party of nigel farage is really sweeping the board, even in affluent areas of, for instance, central london. this just speaks to the d disaffection by the central right voter that feels that brexit hasn t been delivered by the conservative party. and no more so than in consistencies like the one i m broadcasting to you from. this is the biggest consistency in the united kingdom, delivering four european members of parliament. nigel farage just had a seat here for the best part of 20 years to use it as a fulcrum for campaigning to leave the eu. it will be places like this where you ll start to see people like farage saying look, we have seats in brussels now. we want to use this to try and undermind the two-party system in westminster and get a seat at the negotiating table. that s going to make the conservative government s life pretty hard from here on, whoever is the next leader after