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

I mean there are different views around about how you could limit the growth, right? matched

Um but if you could come up with a proposal that limited the growth and there are perfectly good reasons for doing this given that pensioners have done so much better than working people over the last fifteen years, I think this is a story you could tell to the nation. matched

The political benefit matched

That he would be seen to be taking on a powerful vested interest. matched

People would think, oh, he's he's a bit some people would hate it, he'd get a lot of he'd be attacked, but nonetheless, you know, he would look like a stronger, more confident prime minister. matched

Um and secondly, markets would love it, interest rates would come down, and then it would be much easier for him to fund all the things he wants to fund, you know, investment in transport, investment in council housing, all the growth friendly things. matched

So the thing that's on my mind about the triple lock is is this, right? matched

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

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