Yet hospitality sector leaders say there are other specific factors relating to government policy during the covid period that are contributing to a uk specific inflation problem today. it s undoubtedly tougher for the hospitality sector in the uk. during covid, they had to take out loans. the government provided unprecedented support but it did make them take out loans, so at the moment our businesses are prioritising paying down government debt rather than investing injobs and growth in their businesses and that means they ve got no headroom to manage the difficult cost challenges that they ve got coming through in energy and food. rather like the murder on the orient express, forfirms, there is no shortage of suspects for the cause of the uk s apparently stickier inflation. in truth, the economicjury is still out on whether britain is truly the global inflationary invalid. but the symptoms so far are not encouraging. then there. when the independent review