Robert Peston
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5,884 appearances
45 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 2d ago
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Some people.
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We don't know whether that'll be permanent or temporary.
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How should government be thinking about what that means?
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We talked a bit about training, but wha wh how should they be thinking about that in in in a very pressing issue?
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What it means for tax revenues, what it means for how welfare should be allocated.
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I think that's absolutely central.
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And I uh you know my a a brother uh
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book uh it was originally called Bust and then I changed it to a slightly more optimistic type.
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Anyway, uh but it was it it it it looked at
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one aspect of of all of this which is
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you know, when people lose their jobs i in this industrial revolution, um, how they're supported to get the new skills.
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Um
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I would argue we don't, compared to some countries, have a welfare system that um gives people the kind of incomes that I think they can reasonably expect to have.
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You know, even if it's you know well, not even if it it should be for a time limited period.
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If you want people to retrain, you say, right, you've got a year or two years to retrain, we you know, it
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But in that period, subject to you taking the retraining seriously, we will give you a decent income for your family.
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income.
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Which which didn't happen with coal miners and those who lost their manufacturing jobs in the eighties, which uh we've gotta learn from that.
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Precisely.
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Precisely
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