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

He's he's got a cheerful demeanor. matched

I I I I think it is probably the case that in general the mood has im improved. matched

But uh the markets remain a problem. matched

So how does he in a sense matched

provide the stability for people to, you know, lend to the UK, invest, spend without as it's as it were, scaring people that the way that the way he's gonna do that is to whack up taxes, uh which would then take all that demand out of the economy. matched

sort of recent history. matched

I mean one of the um sort of matched

Paradoxes of I say the last 20 years is probably the only Prime Minister I can remember who genuinely, I think, wanted to make growth the top priority, was also the most disastrous. matched

I mean, there's no question in my mind that Liz Truss meant it when she said growth was my number one priority, but the execution was. matched

then about as bad as you could possibly think with with with the with the mini budget. matched

The worry I have, I mean I assume that Andy Burnham gets that growth matters. matched

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Then he has done a lot of saying, you know, we've got to invest in the British economy to make it more resilient against climate change. matched

We've got to reform social care. matched

It's gonna be a big bill there if he does what he says. matched

Providing a proper social care service for um older and and vulnerable people is gonna be very expensive, right? matched

So so there's there's there's uh you know, all of that. matched

He wants more housing, he wants more infrastructure, all of this stuff is expensive. matched

And so obviously if you're in the markets or indeed if you're in the opposition parties, you're saying, it means any one thing, taxes are going up. matched

If we however get into a cycle where everyone just assumes it's all gonna be paid for with higher taxes, we won't get the growth. matched

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