Robert Peston
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5,697 appearances
44 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
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Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I then did go to the treasury and say I need this detail, but guess you g you give me a guess how uh over uh over what time scale they're gonna be judged on this what are you gonna guess?
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Uh
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How over how long are they gonna double the number of unicorns?
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Ten years.
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meaningless.
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It's so meaningless.
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I mean, who in ten years' time is even gonna remember the
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I mean, you know, the chances of John Healy still being or you know, you know, or Burnham be still being in charge in ten years' time, I wouldn't put a huge probability on on that.
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So it's the sort of commitment you make when you know you're not going to be held accountable.
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And anyway, for what it's worth, they think there are roughly just so if anybody's listening and cares, they think there are roughly two hundred um unicorns.
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Right.
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Right now.
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So if you take if they're gonna double that, right, that would take them to four hundred unicorns.
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I have to say.
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You know, against a a position where
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Um, we do have by far the most vibrant tech and high value da uh you know, high value uh sort of small company sector in Europe by a wide margin, whether it's life sciences, tech, we you know, w way more vibrant.
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So all they're really talking about is is that two hundred of those would be worth each a uh uh you know, uh another billion dollars.
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Over the next ten years.
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If I'm honest with you, I don't think that's a very ambitious target.
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No, and take into account influences.
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