Surging inflation leads to jump in Britons needing free sanitary items

Longest slump: A customer at a supermarket in Walthamstow, east London. Inflation is expected to peak at 13.3% in October when energy price caps rise. — AFP

LONDON: The cost of living crisis is forcing people to turn to charities for sanitary products, the latest sign of how households are being squeezed by the economic slowdown.

With inflation at levels last seen in the 1980s, charity Bloody Good Period distributed 150% more packs of period products in May and June than a year earlier.