Households have more money but are too scared to spend it

The headlines from the high street are still grim. Sales in retail stores in May fell 1.6% year on year, according to the Office for National Statistics. And while the direction of online consumer spending is still upwards, growth is now single-digit rather than more than 30% as it was last year, according to BBC News.

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