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

Um and he came under a lot matched

Well, you know, it's not long into his time in office, and the th the the awful truth is he is being dictated to by the bond market, by lenders to the UK. matched

Yeah. matched

We've said that most of the problem of soaring interest rates stem matched

From the impetuous behavior of the American president Donald Trump. matched

And, you know, it is the the fundamental cause of the mess we're in now is Trump's decision to go to war in Iran. matched

But the Prime Minister, I hope, has taken on board that certainly in the early days of this four. matched

fall in government debt prices, the hit to the UK was worse. matched

than the hit to other uh th than the the debt of other countries. matched

I mean the government keeps saying almost implying it's unfair because they keep saying, well we've got plans, plans they actually inherited from Rachel Reeves to reduce borrowing faster than in other countries, what's called debt consolidation. matched

Well, yes, that is true. matched

But what the markets have matched

When uh the Prime Minister gave his first speech to Parliament, they heard him talking about big ambitions that will cost an enormous amount of money, whether it is you know more building of council houses, where w whether it's his obsession with taking control of water companies and energy companies. matched

repeated repeated the following day in a statement by Lou Haig, effectively the Deputy Prime Minister, the first Secretary. matched

They're they are obsessed with this idea of taking control of energy companies and water companies. matched

And it is very difficult to see matched

how you could possibly do that and it not look as though quite substantial debts of these companies would fall on, you know, the balance sheet of the of of the government. matched

So he's got to be very, very careful uh there. matched

We know about his enormous ambitions to uh fix social care. matched

Again incredibly um uh uh expensive in in in potentially in borrowing terms. matched

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