Robert Peston

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The Rest Is Money · 311. Why is the US debt crisis a big problem for Burnham? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

But they but the two things can be true, that it's AI is changing the world, and there could st could still be, probably is, a uh a a significant financial bubble there which will be pricked at some point. matched

So, you know, deeply worrying times. matched

Hello and welcome back to The Rest Is Money with me, Robert Peston. matched

So you were saying um a little bit earlier that the government was hoping that this budget would not be a massive affair. matched

Um they were hoping just to get through it, you know, with some not exactly tinkering, but with some, you know, not massive tax changes, for example, which could be deferred to after the publication of the so called ten matched

year plan, which is when in probably December, could slip to early January, the Prime Minister will set out his really big ambitions if he's allowed to stay in office for up to ten years, as it were. matched

But that now looks like a naive hope. matched

I mean you talked about the astonishing amounts that we're shelling out in interest on this three trillion matched

trillion, almost three trillion uh pounds worth of government debt, as you said. matched

Well over a hundred billion every single year. matched

I mean, you you know, this is this is double. matched

I mean you mentioned it was more than uh we spend on defence. matched

It's probably running at about double what we spend on the security of the nation. matched

So, you know, it's an enormous bill. matched

And I you know I am matched

Reminded the matched

Uh of a moment uh before Andy Burnham became Leader of the Laby and Prime Minister, a moment where matched

He actually came quite close to blowing up his chances. matched

Because do you remember when he said he was not going to be dictated to by the bond market? matched

Uh uh implied that he was n not as committed to fiscal to the fiscal rules um as the the then government of of Starmer and Reeves were. matched

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