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: Bessent's Big Bet, Bond Yields and the AI Bubble · 11 Sep 2026 podcast

Um, you know, I don't think many Labour MPs got into power or into government or into becoming an MP to save money.

Yeah.

You know, it's not really, you know, the thing that I guess that they're they're kinda driven by.

So it's kinda like you you can sort of see which way the wind's blowing.

But Burnham has you know, they've got this commitment to three percent, I think, or they're gonna lay it out three percent by twenty thirty and then what, three and a half by three and a half by twenty thirty five.

And that's kinda like a l quite a long time, right?

Yeah, doesn't feel there's uh enough urgency.

Like if they they're saying all these things, but if they really believed that it was an urgent problem, they'd be saying different things.

Yeah.

I think.

Yeah.

Right?

And it would be there'd be a different conversation happening right now and you wouldn't

even be putting and and by the way that it's not to pick on uh I know the right is sort of saying um or or or sorry left Burnham is saying this is like an easy left wing right wing thing it's like if you look at like I had to look at this chat GPT number so take take take with caution but I said which departments they're what's the increase in spending since twenty nineteen?

Take with caution.

Top of the bill is the DWP.

Yeah.

There's a hundred billion pounds which is forty percent

of the entire increase of the increase in in its expenditure overall.

So like any you you'd have to look at the the thing.

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