Robert Peston
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5,884 appearances
45 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard yesterday
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to the UK basically said, Oh, forget the enormous majority, this is a weak government.
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We don't have confidence that they're going to manage the debt in an effective way.
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If Burnham can use his current popularity to do something like reforming the triple lock, I do believe that e i almost irrespective of how much money is actually saved, the symbolism of somebody doing something as controversial
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What are you doing?
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as that would lead to a very significant structural reduction in the interest rates the UK pays, and everybody, the government and people, would feel massively better off, and the economic and political dividend for him would be very significant.
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So let's let's just see whether he has both the clear thinking ability and the guts to do something like that.
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Goodbye.
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Global cohesion's been shattered by Trump's America and she's China.
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Our communities have been broken by the destruction of local organizations and stagnating living standards.
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Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has a plan to address both crises, doesn't he, Steph?
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I mean, as you say, Gordon, this breakdown in communities has fueled the rise of populists, also the rise of very unpleasant extremists.
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There was a view, I think, for many years, in what you might call the liberal center, center-left and center-right, that the key to everything was to rebuild.
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Restore economic growth, which is obviously important, but the sort of dominant diagnosis of why.
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Support for established governments collapsed was that, you know, millions and millions of people's living standards had stagnated, particularly since the financial crisis.
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And the primary responsibility was just to get those up again.
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But do you think essentially that this is something that I think Darren Asamoglu, a Nobel Prize winner, who's just been on our podcast, would argue.
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He would say that many established politicians simply ignored the
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Those social bombs as they collapsed.
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I think Steph and I would agree with w you know, much of what you say, but the challenge
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