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

I mean, this is what two thousand and I don't know, four, five or something. matched

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Do you remember about both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown is they told a story about the kind of fundamental reforms we needed to see. matched

And they but they told it over weeks and months and in some cases years. matched

He did announce, you know, some quite big things, like for example, digital ID, but it came out of a completely blue sky, right? matched

Um and it wasn't altogether surprising to many of us that there was then a backlash against it because they'd not made any attempt to sell the idea of a digital ID, uh, to the British people. matched

Do you think Burnham has the ability to tell that kind of long term story consistently that would allow the abolition of the triple lock? matched

Most of the things. matched

Mm-hmm. matched

That would allow welfare reform. matched

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Slightly concerned, maybe possibly critical of Burnham. matched

I was um disappointed that one of his very early announcements was to can digital ID. matched

I mean, Starmer had already softened it by saying it wasn't going to be compulsory, and I wasn't sure that was the right decision. matched

But it's been totally canned now. matched

Now you edited what I thought was a very, very interesting. matched

Report into how, particularly in an artificial intelligence world, the public sector, Whitehall, needs to be reformed. matched

And in that report, you said that so much of what can be done to improve public services and make Whitehall more efficient actually flowed from a digital ID. matched

So how worried are you that it's been canned? matched

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