Labour TD calls for Government to follow UK example to tackle food inflation

Kantar checks the prices of some 30,000 items on supermarket shelves to measure inflation. Stock Image. 

The Labour party’s spokesperson on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, Enterprise and Trade Ged Nash has called on the Government to follow the example of the UK government to bring retailers together to request that they introduce voluntary price caps on some on brand staples.

There was mounting evidence across Europe that food inflation was “extremely sticky” he told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland.