Such dismal news appears to vindicate critics who say that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has forsaken its job of meeting the inflation target.
He added that the Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) may end up needing yet another sharp fall in sterling to get CPI inflation near 2% next year.
In August the bank's monetary-policy committee (MPC) forecast that consumer-price inflation would fall back to its official 2% target, but only after a period of economic weakness had drawn its sting.