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

So I can't imagine we were uniquely sick in some way.

So it feels like in that 50 billion, roughly what it is, would solve all your problems.

Your defence problem solved, the NHS, I'm sure you could throw money at that again.

You've got a lot of things you could fix.

on the back of that.

So that seems to me that you need to get that one right.

And if he's able to do a kind of Tony Blair, persuade them it's in their interest, it's like part of the Labour movement, you know, and that Alan Milburn review about that really framed it in the right way that like, you know, this is actually a negative for people.

So if he's...

has that charisma and that ability to persuade in the way that Blair did.

Maybe it's possible that, you know, he's able to keep them happy in some ways and then persuade them to do the big decisions that they need to do.

But I don't know what you think about that, whether you think that's likely or...

That's come out of my optimistic thing.

I mean, obviously, we'll see in the near future.

I mean, his picks so far, I think, have been pretty good for his cabinet.

Certainly surprising.

And very surprising.

But I think, you know, it's kind of ticked a lot of boxes, I would say.

Like, it's definitely, you know, it's not scared to horses, I would say, in any of his picks, really.

You know, obviously, Healy is the chancellor, keeping Mahmoud in the home office, Streeting in defence.

You know, they all seem to me like pretty reasonable picks.

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