Lord Jim O'Neill

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446 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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The Rest Is Money · 302. Can the West bridge the gap with China, India and the BRICs+ nations? · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

And the potential, especially at the time where the U.S.

has gone on this weird journey and the role of the English language, the role of our legal system and our long-term history, our ability to have a much more dramatically improved economic and trade relationship and investment relationship with Europe

Endless members of the BRICS Plus countries, and by the way, there's another 10 partner countries queuing up to join, is immense.

And I would love to see a much more serious, realistic approach to all of this, an ambitious approach coming out of UK leadership.

Why not?

What's wrong with that?

One of the thrilling things of the early days of the Northern Powerhouse movement

agenda when uh osborne and cameron came in is they have this uh famous trip to china which i went on there was a northern powerhouse pitch book and we were all and the five then then leaders of the councils of the biggest northern cities were all there and we're all joking after day two that chinese investors knew more about the northern powerhouse than people in whitehall

Steph, as it relates to international things, I don't think they shouldn't be one or the other.

I think we really need to have extremely ambitious focus in these areas.

I always think of France.

Look how many times Macron travels to places around the world.

I was asked...

now as a private individual, to go on a trip with Theresa May to Africa.

And I couldn't.

But the way it was being dressed up for the media was like some sort of historical moment.

So the first time a British prime minister has ever figured out where they are.

And I think I read that Macron had already been there five times the same year.

You know, you've got to be serious about these things.

Goodbye from me too.

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