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Annual inflation in the UK reached a never-before-seen high last month, data from the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday.
The consumer price index rose 11.1% in October from a year before, and up from 10.1% in September.
This was the highest annual CPI rate in the current National Statistic series, which began in January 1997.
The figure also came in higher than anticipated, with a reading of 10.7% expected according to FXStreet.
On a monthly basis, CPI rose by 2.0% in October, up sharply from 0.5% in September.
Despite the introduction of the UK government's Energy Price Guarantee, gas and electricity prices made the largest upward contribution to the change in CPI annual inflation rates between September and October.
Annual core inflation, which excludes food, energy, alcohol and tobacco, was stable at 6.5%. The rate was expected to fall to 6.4%, according to FXStreet-cited consensus, however.
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