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  • UK households will take £2,400 financial hit from Iran war, analysis shows

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    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/uk-households-financial-hit-iran-war-inflation-wage-stagnation

    ‘Until energy markets calm, the squeeze will persist’ on UK households, says the CEBR consultancy. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian

    Centre for Economics and Business Research calculates effect of inflation and wage stagnation to end of 2027

    UK households will have suffered a £2,400 financial hit, on average, from the Iran war by the end of 2027, new analysis shows.

    The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has calculated that the jump in inflation since the conflict began, and weaker wage growth, will knock £1,100 off the real income of the average UK household in 2026, and by a further £1,300 in 2027.

    This adds up to a total of £70.4bn that will be wiped off UK households’ real disposable incomes by the Middle East conflict, according to the CEBR, an economic consultancy.

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    Energy bills across Great Britain are scheduled to rise in October, after the regulator, Ofgem, decided to lift its quarterly price cap by 4%.

    Last week, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit thinktank (ECIU) calculated that higher wholesale oil and gas prices since the start of the US-Iran war, on 28 February, will add an estimated £9.8bn to UK energy and road transport costs. UK gas and electricity users face paying an extra £190m for each week the conflict continues, the ECIU found.

    Original article at https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/uk-households-financial-hit-iran-war-inflation-wage-stagnation

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  • UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record

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    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/record-heat-drought-2025-cost-uk-arable-farmers-estimated-800m-climate-crisis-grain-harvest

    Spring barley is harvested. The ECIU said the evidence suggests climate impacts were driving issues of profitability in the arable sector. Photograph: Diane Randell/Alamy

    Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

    Record heat and drought cost Britain’s arable farmers more than £800m in lost production in 2025 in one of the worst harvests recorded, analysis has estimated.

    Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020, leaving some farmers asking whether the growing impacts of the climate crisis are making it too financially risky to sow their crops. Farmers are already facing heavy financial pressure as the costs of fertilisers and other inputs have risen faster than prices.

    This year Britain had the hottest and driest spring on record, and the hottest summer, with drought conditions widespread. As a result, the production of the five staple arable crops – wheat, oats, spring and winter barley, and oilseed rape – fell by 20% compared with the 10-year average, according to the analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU). The harvest in England was the second-worst in records going back to 1984.

    Supercharged by global heating, extreme rainfall in the winters of 2019-20 and 2023-24 also led to very poor harvests, as farmers were unable to access waterlogged and flooded fields to drill their crops.

    “This has been another torrid year for many farmers in the UK, with the pendulum swinging from too wet to too hot and dry,” said Tom Lancaster at the ECIU. “British farmers have once again been left counting the costs of climate change, with four-fifths now concerned about their ability to make a living due to the fast-changing climate.”

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    Article continues at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/04/record-heat-drought-2025-cost-uk-arable-farmers-estimated-800m-climate-crisis-grain-harvest

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