Lord Jim O'Neill
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first heard Jul 2026
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when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown appeared and made the Bank of England independent and gilt yields dropped dramatically just that week and stayed down.
And I think that should be the reward for somebody that's going to be bold enough to deal with some of this stuff.
I mean, I have four that I think I've talked to you guys about before, and those two are probably the most obvious.
And, you know, let me again emphasize, because I have talked to Andy and his team, I have no idea quite what precise things will happen, but I'm on public record in the past three weeks and certainly before it,
that I think the triple lot needs to be dealt with.
And I suspect once the right person is bold enough to do it, then it's going to be pretty hard for any major political opposition to disagree.
And you're very right to point to the growth of debt servicing and cost
as time goes on if it's left unchanged because it is pretty spectacular as we go towards 2050 as actually the latest OBR mid-year forecast upgrade has just shown.
But there is this issue about the manifesto and all the rest of it.
And when Andy was pressed on it, of course, a week or so ago, he said, sticking by the manifesto.
But let's see what happens on that.
But I think that's definitely right at the forefront.
And it's also very unfair from an intergenerational perspective.
with all these young people that can't afford to buy or rent in some parts of the country having to be expected to pay more and more tax for a lot of people who own a lot of their own homes and still get a very nice protected pension increase all the time.
Second thing, which relates very much into the devolution argument, and I think there's a subtlety to it that Andy's already talked about, and that's welfare reform.
I do think one of the many mistakes that Keir Starmer presided over was effectively trying to play around with small amounts of savings in welfare purely to meet what one might regard objectively as an arbitrary fiscal rule or the fiscal space.
Whereas if you're really going to do it, you've got to have a systematic reform of everything that connects to the various welfare payments that are going on.
and at the core of
the idea of number 10 for the North, and as well as giving a lot more devolved responsibilities to areas of the country that are capable of handling it, what I think you will get is a much more connected approach across all the departments that are relevant to different forms of welfare reform.
Part of what Andy is being influenced about is Manchester has something called the Prevention Demonstrator going on,
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