Robert Peston

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

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

And at that point, if you're a lender to the UK, you say, well, he's obviously got a fiscal problem. voice-verified

He's going to have to raise taxes. voice-verified

And it's just very, very easy to say, let's sell gilt until the moment that headroom is rebuilt. voice-verified

And actually, weirdly, this was supposed to provide confidence, but it just also means that if you're a trader... voice-verified

And what you're interested in is volatility. voice-verified

We've created a system that generates volatility. voice-verified

And that's one of the reasons why when, as we were saying yesterday, America catches a cold, we seem to get flu. voice-verified

Why the movements in the UK are bigger than movements in the US debt. voice-verified

Because you can see the gearing effect from what's happening in interest rates to a decline in headroom. voice-verified

This is the moment to sell UK government voice-verified

Well, what you actually obviously ought to be doing over the medium term, and we talked about this earlier, is make some genuinely quite big symbolic movements, voice-verified

at that point, because what it then comes down to, voice-verified

other thing they said that I thought was really interesting is they said our biggest... voice-verified

weakness the reason why we have this thing we were talking about the other day the high beta which is as i say that our guilt our bond prices move more than america's when there's a problem is that because of the sheer number of prime ministers we've had since 2016 the sheer number voice-verified

chancellors we just look like a very unstable economy and and you know we get punished for the fact that nobody knows who's going to be in charge next week so you know again voice-verified

compared to Italy at the moment. voice-verified

Let's say that was not always the case. voice-verified

then he couldn't manage his backbenches. voice-verified

And at that voice-verified

Gilt Market said, we thought this was a strong government, but it isn't. voice-verified

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