Simon White

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448 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 11 Sep

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Merryn Talks Money · Markets Wrap: Inflation Means Bad News for Burnham · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And we're kind of here again.

Burnham, is he going to fail in a more, you know, charismatic fashion?

Or maybe he's going to, you know, get through what he wants to get through.

But it's hard to sort of reason, you know, with these...

all these promises now about what he's going to spend and nothing to do with what he's going to cut and he's sticking to the fiscal rules so what's your only lever left well the only lever left is tax i'm wondering what your take is on this i mean we're already got the highest tax rates in a generation or actually maybe two generations in terms of gdp i just looked at this it's basically outside of war or the aftermath of war it's never been higher

Pluck the goose.

I mean, he's got...

As I say, limited room for manoeuvre.

I mean, I don't know.

I mean, look, there's been a couple of articles in the papers recently, like the Janine Ganesh and FT and it was Matthew Syed and Sunday Times making the same point that they kind of want him to fail.

We need another 1970s winter of discontent to kind of reset the system.

the ft to come out with the accelerationist argument i have to say so that was quite interesting to see yeah yeah it is i mean it's as i say interesting and as i say the same thought process elsewhere i mean um as i say he's saying all the right things right now and i think the sort of cosmetic if you like announcement he's made so far i mean you know the the bus cap yeah

And the VAT and fuel and the business rates thing, in the grand scheme of things, don't cost a lot, but they sound good.

So my sort of sliver of hope is that he sort of says the right things to keep the left to his party, tickle their belly a little bit, keep them happy.

and he's able at some point down the line to persuade them for the need to, say, cut the welfare bill.

By the way, that alone would solve everything.

I mean, it's a roughly 50 billion increase since the pandemic.

And a lot of... That happened in a lot of countries because of the pandemic, of course, but a lot of other countries...

their welfare bills went back down.

I was stuck.

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