Earlier this month, on Wednesday 14 February, if you weren't too distracted opening Valentine's Day cards and gifts, you might have turned on the morning news to hear the main story that "UK inflation stays at 4%". We have now had over two years of high inflation exceeding the Government's target of 2%. The Bank of England have hiked the base rate from 0.1% at the end of 2021 to 5.25% at present in an attempt to dampen the economy and curb inflation to the intended level, but inflation remains twice as high as it should be.