Difficult trading conditions can occur at any time. What the UK is facing right now, off the back of a pandemic, is several worst-case scenarios happening at the same time. So, it’s understandable that business owners want to be cut a bit of slack. What’s happening? As we write this blog, UK inflation has risen to 9.4%. Costs for products and services are rising at their fastest rate for 40 years and in some industries, the...