Robert Peston

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5,610 appearances 43 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Money · 313. Ruth Curtice: middle earners need to be taxed more · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

What does he need to build it up to? voice-verified

The penny doesn't seem to have dropped quite for him or for the Treasury. voice-verified

If they were in a position to set out more concretely, voice-verified

that they would reform the triple lock, for example, or this is the kind of quantum we're looking at in terms of welfare savings, if they did that voice-verified

our view is they would be massively rewarded by lenders to the UK. voice-verified

What we'd see at that point would be a significant rise in the price of government debt and therefore voice-verified

a very significant rise in the interest rate that he would pay. voice-verified

And that would just create a sort of following wind that could not only give him more room for manoeuvre in terms of his ambitions, but also be a following wind for the whole economy. voice-verified

Is it just that the politics are just too difficult for this government to do it as quickly as that? voice-verified

Is that what's holding them back in your view? voice-verified

So just to put this into the kind of language that most people understand, what your analysis shows is that relative to the public services that we receive and we think we deserve to receive, people on, I don't know whether, sorry, is this the median or the average? voice-verified

So let's just break down what we're saying holds. voice-verified

It is that voice-verified

If you look, as I say, at the kind of public services that we both have and think we deserve, right, what the typical household would pay in tax, net of the benefits and credits they receive is not high by international standards. voice-verified

sort of two thirds of the countries in the world that we would regard as somehow comparable countries, those people would actually be paying more. voice-verified

This is a horrible question to ask you. voice-verified

Obviously, we have the most astonishingly complicated tax system in this country. voice-verified

Do you think broadly, we just need to have a more honest debate that all of us, basically, if we want a certain kind of public sector provision, whether voice-verified

schools, hospitals, defence, we're just all going to have to pay some more? voice-verified

One of the things we pointed out in the last episode was an incredibly wealthy, high-earning person, a hedge voice-verified

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