BBC Breakfast viewers 'can't bear to watch' as show airs devastating breaking news

BBC Breakfast viewers insisted they “couldn’t bear to watch” as the programme was halted for a piece of devastating breaking news in a huge blow to Chancellor Rachel Reeves. Correspondent Ben Boulos had the details as UK inflation rates rose to 3.8% in July, explaining: “This figure is important to us all. It gives us a sense of how quickly prices are rising and how far our money goes when we spend it doing and buying things.”

He added: “Now inflation in the UK has risen faster than expected to 3.8% according to the Office for National Statistics. Now that compares with 3.6% in June, so that tells us that average prices rose more quickly in July than they did the month before. Put really simply, it means if you spent £100 on a range of goods and services a year ago, those same things would now cost you £103.80.”

Ben went on to explain: “It is an average, so you will have noticed some things have jumped in price more sharply, most notably air fares and transport costs, as well as food and drink and restaurants and hotels.

“Now another factor that might have contributed to price rises generally is the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions starting to peek through. Some businesses will have started to pass those on to customers through higher prices since that increase took effect back in April."

One disgruntled viewer tweeted in response: “Can’t bear to watch [crying emoji]. My poor bank account!” Somebody else said: “BBC can tell you all the bad news but never any good news… strange.”

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