Robert Peston

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5,697 appearances 44 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

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

This is gonna be a total reset. matched

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I have to say there was matched

nothing in this speech which Rachel Reeves might not have said. matched

Every single initiative was either stuff that she'd already paved the way for or was about that, you know. matched

This this was basically written by a very cautious treasury. matched

It's the same treasury which basically controlled Rachel Reeves. matched

And I have to tell you, at this particular juncture, it's early days, I you know, it doesn't seem to me that Healy is showing any more independence of thought or courage than his predecessor was. matched

It may come to it, he may by matched

By the time of the budget start doing much bolder things, we shall we shall matched

Maybe the triple lock is another. matched

Interest rates in this country will fall and we'll all feel much richer. matched

You know, who who well I say all. matched

Obviously, if if you if you are listening and you know you are in receipt of the state pension, neither me nor Steph wants to make you poorer. matched

But the but the transfer of income and wealth to retired people from younger people over the last 20 years. matched

is one of the big trends and it is, you know, if you're a struggling family uh on low incomes, the idea that just some of that money could be transfer some of that pensions money could be transferred i in ways that would improve your living standards, and in particular if it led to lower interest rates, matched

You know, that's gotta be something that this government has to take seriously. matched

Well, it is just that sh she and the Resolution Fund Nation have actually done some work that actually we've talked about uh as as a sort of general principle um uh you know in in previous episodes, which is around the idea that taxes for people on middle incomes are high. matched

In fact, there are all on all sorts of ways you could argue that tax matched

On people on middle income are not high. matched

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