Robert Peston

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5,309 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 6d ago

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

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The Rest Is Money · 312. What's missing from Healey's growth plan? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

Uh yes, he started by saying things are looking up on the basis of these studios, but he delivered both that optimistic story and indeed. matched

His plans uh with all the enthusiasm and joy of an undertaker. matched

So I'm not sure that he didn't slightly undermine his own his own case. matched

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He's got to do something about his demeanour. matched

But my my my bigger issue is not about the content of the speech. matched

It seemed to me that quite a lot of the policies uh that he said he would be uh promoting. matched

Uh, is stuff that we on this podcast, you and I, think is not a bad idea. matched

The issue for me is it was a bit like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic to use the cliche, in the sense that matched

If you are Chancellor right now, the thing that you should be matched

desperately worried about is what we talked about in our last podcast, which is uh the way that the price of government debt in America has been falling. matched

Uh the fact that that has therefore led to a very significant drop in the price of UK government debt, GILTS, UK government bonds, um matched

And the impact of that is that the interest that the government has to pay on its debt has been rising very significantly. matched

Uh we talked on the previous podcast uh about that enormous interest bill for the government. matched

And actually we just did a we just did uh fa a a a great event actually matched

On the South Bank uh Restaurant's Money Live, in which we showed this chart, which showed that actually that if if you're just not talking about projects, but if you're just talking about departments, you know, if the interest bill was a department, it would actually be the second most expensive department. matched

But I mean, you know, obviously in terms of projects, DWP and health are bigger than interest. matched

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But, you know, the i the interest bill is well over £100 billion and rising, twice what we spend on on defence. matched

And at the root of all of this is that the UK is what economists or traders call a high beta economy. matched

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