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The Financial Times leads on the UK’s inflation rate rising above 10% in July for the first time in 40 years. Consumer prices were 10.1% higher than the previous year, exceeding expectations inflation would remain in single digits, the FT reports. The paper writes the next Conservative Party leader will inherit an economy that will “resemble the 1970s era, when Britain was regarded as the ‘sickman of Europe'”.