Robert Peston

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5,697 appearances 44 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard today

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

Yes. voice-verified

Because otherwise everybody would voice-verified

delay. voice-verified

Exactly, voice-verified

there'd actually be a leak, voice-verified

Well, I mean, you know, I mean, look, the fact is, one of the reasons it's thought that this bloke Chris Rockhouse left is because he thinks there will be a rule of that sort introduced. voice-verified

And just therefore going back to the proposal that you put last year, which from memory was you would cut the employee national insurance rate by two percentage points and put up voice-verified

the income tax rates by two percentage points and that I think would have raised a net six billion or so because people would pay it on their pensions, people would pay a bit more tax on their pensions, voice-verified

bit more if they had rental income, if they were property owners and at the time many people thought that was very fair and actually voice-verified

Literally within days of the budget, that was something that Rachel Reeves was planning to do. voice-verified

You had a big influence. voice-verified

That was something that the Treasury and Rachel Reeves was going to announce in the budget. voice-verified

And then they had a terrible wobble. voice-verified

They had a panic attack. voice-verified

They thought that they'd be accused of breaching their manifesto and they backed off. voice-verified

And as you said, they... voice-verified

Throws rates, I think, for another threshold, excuse me, the thresholds for another three years, which is a sort of hidden, some would say a slightly dishonest way of raising more income tax. voice-verified

Broadly, on your analysis, it is unfair that people don't pay a higher rate of tax on their pensions and on rental income. voice-verified

Many would say there's definitely a case for doing precisely what she was too scared to do last year. voice-verified

Now, any sense that the Treasury might pick that plan up again? voice-verified

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