Robin Wigglesworth

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The Story of Money · The financial crash that created Britain’s first prime minister · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I think we can agree on that.

Uh and it set the seat for for Britain being the new seat of financial power in Europe and the

Therefore, really the world.

But it worked out well for Walpole as well.

He becomes the first de facto prime minister, as we put it.

But obviously that title doesn't really exist.

This is in April 1721.

What does it actually mean?

How does he become what we now think of as the first prime minister?

Well, let he who is not carrying an extra few pounds through the first stone.

I su certainly won't.

But I'm I'm fascinated and I think like Jillian, one of my favorite things about Brett's is obviously their insults.

And I gather that Prime Minister was actually initially an insult.

That's how Walpole's enemies referred to him.

That's how the term happened.

And I love the way that like we think of the apex of political British political life.

The term for it actually

Oh, we have so many options, right?

Uh but I I do like, I mean, I I I think this reappraisal of the South Sea bubble is so fascinating, right?

Rather than seeing it as another debacle in the long list of debacles, financial debacles we've had in history, it kind of is the start of modern capitalism and financial capitalism, and frankly, benefits that have accrued to all of us because of that.

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