Robert Paston

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388 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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The Rest Is Money · 282. Are politicians living in a tax-and-spend dream world? · 27 May 2026 podcast

But his version, his current version of a billionaire tax would be useful extra money, but it doesn't fill the big hole in the government's deficit year after year.

It just feels part of it.

How do we get to a situation where voters, in a sense, genuinely understand, you know, what is a sort of credible and effective reform from sort of window dressing?

But there's also a sort of paradox, though, in what you've just been saying.

So yes, it is true that Osborne and Cameron said some things which were quite difficult for many people to hear.

We had that era of austerity.

And my argument would be, however, even if in the context of the financial crisis, it was perfectly clear that we had to do some belt tightening, my own view would be some of the things they cut, like investment, actually undermined the very growth

that we desperately need if we're going to have a sustainable economy.

No, and so that is important.

The fact that we haven't had, as you say, even coherent messages, some would argue.

It's not even coherent, yes.

It is troubling.

So I'm going to ask you a very unfair question.

Now, I don't think I've asked you any unfair ones, but this is genuinely unfair.

So so so the answer to the following question is you can't say trust.

We've already parked trust as as as an anomaly to one to one side.

But having been steeped in this stuff for decades, who in the context of the kind of stuff we've been discussing today, which is trying to do sensible things,

which, in your view, would be the best and which the worst government?

The Rest Is Money · 274. Would rejoining the EU be the best growth strategy? · 29 Apr 2026 podcast

I mean, my rough and ready calculation is on a three trillion pound economy, we're looking at 240 billion of income that has disappeared.

Is that right?

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