While movements in global commodity markets helped raise inflation, price rises in the UK have outstripped those in other leading economies. By September 2017, prices were up 3 per cent over the past year compared with 1.5 per cent in the eurozone, 2.2 per cent in the US and 0.7 per cent in Japan. 'The inflation figures are the most informative'  , says Swati Dhingra, at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. She says the impact of broad uncertainty has been harder to measure. 'There is too much lumpiness' in foreign investment figures to learn anything definite. 

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