Robert Peston

speaker

5,309 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 5d ago

Robert Peston’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 41 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 9.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

The Rest Is Money · 313. Ruth Curtice: middle earners need to be taxed more · 13 Sep 2026 podcast

Because you can see the gearing effect from what's happening in interest rates to a decline in headroom. voice-verified

This is the moment to sell UK government voice-verified

Well, what you actually obviously ought to be doing over the medium term, and we talked about this earlier, is make some genuinely quite big symbolic movements, voice-verified

at that point, because what it then comes down to, voice-verified

other thing they said that I thought was really interesting is they said our biggest... voice-verified

weakness the reason why we have this thing we were talking about the other day the high beta which is as i say that our guilt our bond prices move more than america's when there's a problem is that because of the sheer number of prime ministers we've had since 2016 the sheer number voice-verified

chancellors we just look like a very unstable economy and and you know we get punished for the fact that nobody knows who's going to be in charge next week so you know again voice-verified

compared to Italy at the moment. voice-verified

Let's say that was not always the case. voice-verified

then he couldn't manage his backbenches. voice-verified

And at that voice-verified

Gilt Market said, we thought this was a strong government, but it isn't. voice-verified

You're certainly right that the structure of ownership and the fact that we have, I mean, Bank of England has made this point, is high dependence on investors who are just not patriotic at all because they're just going to move their money where they think they get the best returns, international hedge funds and the rest. voice-verified

That does make us vulnerable. voice-verified

I mean, you know, if you're lending to the government for 30 years, you're quite close to getting a 6% rate of interest. voice-verified

Most people would bite your hand off for a voice-verified

rate of interest. voice-verified

The only thing I would say is that if they are going to... voice-verified

try and get more money lent to them directly by savers. voice-verified

investors. voice-verified

Showing 101–120 of 5,309 · page 6 of 266