Robert Peston
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5,697 appearances
44 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 2d ago
Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But people should not be fooled into thinking that this means that these projects will necessarily happen.
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Because it doesn't magic money from nowhere.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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The money has still got to be there.
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It allows it should allow a Chancellor or indeed other ministers to choose a northern project over a southern project, but they still gotta make the choice.
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Look, literally, nobody knows how many consultations this government is currently carrying out.
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Because there have been since Starmer became Prime Minister, there have been so many consultations launched.
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I mean, literally, I don't believe there's anybody in the world.
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Maybe may may maybe an AI superbrain can calculate it.
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But literally and yeah, I look, I mean, that must be a good thing, mustn't it?
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To actually basically force ministers and their officials to actually take responsibility rather than
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than farming out the assessment to some outside people.
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Yeah.
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Now, we have said, therefore, that there was a lot of good stuff um in this speech.
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I'm gonna make, I'm afraid, one other slightly what you might call um is negative the right word?
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Carping the right word?
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I don't know.
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Um I I'm gonna m m sort of make a a point though that I think is relevant, which is Rachel Reeves gets pushed out by
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uh Andy Burnham because, you know, he takes the view that, you know, everything that's happened over the last forty years economically has been a disaster.
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