Food prices are on track to be 50% higher in November than at the start of the cost of living crisis in 2021, new research suggests. Climate and energy shocks have driven an almost quadrupling of the pace of food price growth, according to new research from the thinktank Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU), with costs rising in five years at about the same rate as they had over the previous two decades. Anna Taylor, the executive director of the Food Foundation, a charity, said: “Food prices rising this high, and this fast leaves families on the lowest incomes with nowhere left to cut except the food on their plate. When that happens, people skip meals, children go hungry, and diet-related illness rises – taking parents out of work and piling pressure on an NHS that can least afford it.” The research suggest that the cost of living crisis, which many voters lay blame on political elites and big business , is likely to continue as an important political issue during 2026.…