Robert Peston

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The Rest Is Money · 312. What's missing from Healey's growth plan? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

And take into account inflation. matched

I I'm not sure that that you know that the reality of that is quite as yeah uh exciting as, you know, as it ought to be. matched

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As I say, look, I pl th the idea that they've they've worked out that there's a huge opportunity here, it's something we talked about uh many times on this podcast, because matched

You know, we do have a a brilliant university sector that spins out these brilliant young businesses. matched

But again, there wasn't enough detail matched

About making sure that British money goes to these businesses so that they don't, so that you know they don't feel obliged, as so many of them do now, to relocate to America, float in America, raise money in America. matched

Again, you know, Phoenix Courts has has you know provided me with stats about you know how. matched

How many of the big pension farms look committed to matched

To, you know, in the Mansion House Accords, to Reeves and to Hump to back these sorts of businesses, how many have actually done that? matched

I mean, it's so few and i i i in s in the context of this sector that I I'm not even gonna, you know, it's it's almost a rounding error how little money these pension funds have provided. matched

As for local government pension schemes, which have a colossal amount of money, they've done almost nothing. matched

in this sector. matched

I and again there just wasn't anything in this speech that talked about how to unlock matched

British savers money for British growth for British fast growing companies. matched

Uh you know, a big opportunity missed again. matched

And then I was told a story, and if the business British Business Bank is listening, they can um come back to me on this. matched

I'm not gonna name the individual company, but there's a particular um again, amazing high-growth uh company in the agri sector who was trying to get money from the British Business Bank, and they were actually told matched

We're not gonna give you money unless you have an American lead investor. matched

I mean what What? matched

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