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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You're certainly right that the structure of ownership and the fact that we have, I mean, Bank of England has made this point, is high dependence on investors who are just not patriotic at all because they're just going to move their money where they think they get the best returns, international hedge funds and the rest.
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That does make us vulnerable.
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I mean, you know, if you're lending to the government for 30 years, you're quite close to getting a 6% rate of interest.
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Most people would bite your hand off for a
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rate of interest.
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The only thing I would say is that if they are going to...
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try and get more money lent to them directly by savers.
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investors.
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And we know there's a big pool of money there because savings by British consumers are pretty much at record highs
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the moment.
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They have got to sort out the administration of national savings.
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I mean, my mum died back in February.
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It took six months for National Savings to tell us, you know, how much she had in savings.
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I mean, it is such a management mess.
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I mean, it's great to the idea of us lending to the government,
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to sort out the mechanisms for borrowing to the government.
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have talked about it.
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I mean, obviously we need to move more in that direction where people feel they're making a direct
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So that's it for this week.
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See you soon.
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