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The headline CPI rate was running at 7.9 per cent in June, tumbling from 8.7 per cent the previous month and significantly below expectations.
More than 7.47million patients in England - equal to one in eight people - were waiting for routine operations by the end of May - up by 56,700 in just one month.
Professor Phil Banfield, head of the British Medical Association's council, said the Government's final offer of a six per cent pay rise for junior doctors is a 'reasonable starting point'.
On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and special guest Nick Timothy are joined by Dr Rakib Ehsan to discuss his recently released book, Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong About Ethnic Minorities. They discuss how the Left traditionally assume they can rely on ethnic minority support and why many on the Remain side of the Brexit debate were surprised when minority areas voted Leave.
RAKIB EHSAN: Britain is fundamentally racist, a country with a brutal imperialistic past which continues to do more harm than good. Or so the liberal Left would have us believe.