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

You have to go back, I think, to over ten years to find um leaders, prime ministers and chancellors, doing matched

Tough things, said matched

that make them enemies matched

but ultimately lead to an election victory. matched

So, you know, you go back to I mean you let's go back all the way to the nineteen eighties and you know, th just the whole raft of really painful things that Margaret Thatcher did, you know, whether it was matched

you know uh uh you know m m massive changes to union legislation, seeing off the you know, the miners, you know, allowing enti you know, uh allowing the the the sterling to rise in a way that did uh it seemed in the short term to do enormous economic damage. matched

She just did a whole raft of really painful things, right? matched

But ultimately, despite the fact she made lots of enemies matched

both in the wider population and even within her own party, because she was seen, you know, whether you whether you think that everything she did was was was good, obviously quite a lot that she did was bad. matched

But she seemed to be taking steps that a very large numbers of people thought were necessary to fix the country. matched

Right? matched

You know, you actually had Brown and Blair do a whole variety of things that were deeply unpopular. matched

They won matched

You know, you know for for the Labour Party, record numbers of elections. matched

George Osborne and David Cameron with austerity, lots about austerity damaged the UK. matched

Yeah. matched

But th there was a message of taking tough decisions to fix a problem that people could see. matched

Now we haven't seen I don't think any leader since then do anything comparable in terms matched

uh proposing something that will divide the nation but that that but is sellable as a way of fixing things however painful, right? matched

And actually saying you're gonna reform the triple lock, if you tell if you tell the story of why you're doing it properly, that basically young working families have had too little over the last, you know, twenty odd years, and pensioners, whether it comes to wealth or income, have done much better. matched

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