UK's Conservatives seize on inflation fall to 2% as poll issue

LONDON, UK: With the upcoming election on July 4, the UK's Conservative Party is celebrating the recent fall in inflation to the Bank of England's target rate of 2 percent for the first time in nearly three years.

Official figures released June 19 by the Office for National Statistics showed that inflation, measured by the consumer prices index, decreased to 2 percent in the year to May from 2.3 percent the pre