Robert Peston

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5,309 appearances 41 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 13 Sep

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

And what that means is matched

When America catches a cold matched

We get well, not quite life-threatening flu, but we get a much w we get a much worse bout than they do. matched

Uh because investors do not have confidence in the public finances of the UK. matched

And other than trotting out the normal thing that we heard from his predecessor uh Rachel Reeves, which is he will honour the fiscal rules. matched

And indeed, also said that he would make sure the headroom, that's the sort of Ray Day money, would be rebuilt to sensible levels. matched

He said absolutely nothing about the thing that matters more than anything else, which is how do you persuade lenders to the UK not to punish Britain when America is making terrible mistakes? matched

There was, I mean, literally almost nothing in this speech of relevance to that. matched

And that's why I'm afraid to say it just felt like a totally wasted opportunity. matched

didn't even didn't even say there would be cuts. matched

He just said they would c he just said they would control public spending, which is completely different. matched

assume so on the basis that if the headroom has collapsed from Rachel Reeves's twenty-four billion last year to let's say five billion you know, if he's not you know, and if he's not yet in the psi in in in in a position to cut public spending, cut the welfare bill, or do the you know, or do the thing that you and I matched

I think you agree with me, this I'm not sure whether you do, but you know, w one of the things we talked about, you know, at that live event and we actually talked about it, I talked about it at at length at the on the last podcast, in my own view is he should if if he announced the reform of the triple lock, I think at that point the confidence of investors in the UK, of lenders to the UK government would increase enormously. matched

I do think the interest bill paid by the British government would come down significantly, with and that would have matched

Just so many positive ramifications for the government and for Britain. matched

Anyway, it doesn't seem to be a anywhere near making that uh judgment. matched

So as you say, if he's not prepared to do something as bold as that, what are the alternatives? matched

He's gonna put taxes up. matched

of the reforms matched

that is widely talked about and is widely favored in government and labor cir circles is the capital gains tax. matched

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