Robert Paston
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388 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
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Right.
The business is going bust because it's desperately inefficient.
Right.
And then, you know, then and there have been plenty of examples in recent years of the government propping up businesses and they frankly never thrive.
And that is throwing good money after bad.
And that is what I'm opposed.
That is what I'm opposed to.
We've agreed many, many, many times on this podcast that putting up employers national insurance was a ridiculous thing to do if you wanted to create employment and promote investment.
And of course, that's my position.
The Rest Is Money · 282. Are politicians living in a tax-and-spend dream world? · 27 May 2026
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subsidising trips to theme parks and free bus travel for kids.
Does this look to you like the best way to protect people on low incomes from a cost of living surge?
This government is only the latest in a long line of governments who talk the talk of wanting to do something about growth and productivity and in the end using a very technical phrase, bugger all.
Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Money with me, Robert Paston.
We have.
And look, I know nobody...
who understands the detail of the interaction between the tax and spending decisions that governments make and the impact that that then has on all of us.
And this is a government that is currently saying that it's big money.
Priority is to help us with the cost of living.
So certainly the initial thing I want to find out from Paul is whether in that hope of helping particularly lower income families with the cost of living is what they're doing remotely sensible and rational.
Paul, great to see you.
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