Robert Peston

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The Rest Is Money · 310. Gordon Brown: ‘I’d tell Trump he’s unpopular’ · 2 Sep 2026 podcast

As it happens, it was clear in the mandate that you gave to the Bank of England, which has been renewed by every successive Chancellor in government, that matched

The prime aim was to keep inflation uh that was the target at two percent, right? matched

And although there is a subsidiary cause, which says something like subject to the other economic objectives of the government, it was a very simple mandate. matched

Now in America, they do have a broader mandate where uh essentially the health of the economy, more broadly, including unemployment, is taken into account much more directly. matched

By the Federal Reserve. matched

Are you saying that the time has come for the British government to perhaps adapt the mandate of the Bank of England to make it a bit more broad so that the Bank of England could have a much more explicit role in, for example, tackling what is a very significant uh, you know, rise problem of rising unemployment, particularly among matched

Young matched

Obviously, when it comes to whether it's renewal of communities, um uh or indeed national renewal, none of this is exactly cheap, although the you know, if it generates additional growth, um, and greater social cohesion in the longer term, obviously this stuff pays for itself. matched

What I was slightly struck matched

in your book that you said both for money raising reasons and reasons of social cohesion, that you think we should look very seriously at having a wealth tax. matched

What would a Gordon Brown wealth tax look like? matched

What's your preference? matched

If you had to choose between those two paths, Gordon, which would you go down? matched

Now, another big chunk of the book is about how countries like the UK have to make common cause with other countries that share our values in a world where you have these extraordinarily powerful countries: America, China. matched

Russia obviously not in an economic sense powerful, but in a military sense behaving in a way that is uh hugely detrimental to our interests. matched

Um I I was struck that in your call for much greater cooperation to solve some of these big global challenges between matched

Countries like the UK, Japan, France, uh, Canada. matched

You did some polling, and it was quite interesting to me that the country that I think you you polled, what, 100,000 people or something? matched

It's an astonishing number of people. matched

And the country they, in a sense, respect most at the moment to show that kind of leadership is Canada. matched

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