Robert Peston

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5,884 appearances 45 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 2d ago

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

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The Rest Is Money · 308. The 4 challenges (and the biggest opportunity) facing the new PM · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

Deep concerns about inequality. matched

But then there is another very significant strait on him, which is, you know, he has inherited matched

government debt as a share of national income that on the most conventional measure is about hundred percent of GDP. matched

Uh interest rates uh paid by the government high and rising. matched

Some of that is a direct result of uncertainty caused by both Trump's war in Iran and Trump's uh inability, refusal to manage you know, US debt. matched

Some would say in a more prudent. matched

way. matched

The question I suppose I've got to put to you is matched

We haven't g had what even remotely looks like any kind of comprehensive or compelling economic plan from Andy Burnham yet. matched

What would in an ideal world you like to see from him, particularly since we've got his first big budget, John Healy's first big budget, coming up in October? matched

22 that Starmer and Reeves uh comprehensively failed, um, was how do you in a sense matched

Um combine matched

Reassuring lenders to the UK, markets, creditors, um, with also giving businesses uh uh uh hope, consumers hope, that it's a good environment to spend and invest in. matched

And you know, we remember when Starmer became Prime Minister and and Reeves became Chancellor, the prevailing mood that they matched

uh propagated was one of gloom. matched

Um that they'd inherited this appalling mess, taxes were gonna have to go up, and the whole country thought at that point said, Okay, in those circumstances with taxes going up, we're not gonna spend, we're not gonna invest. matched

And, you know, they broadly shot themselves in the foot. matched

Um He has matched

begun very, very differently. matched

He's a sort of like Sonny Jim Callahan in in in some ways, for those of us old enough to remember him. matched

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