Steph McGovern

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4,471 appearances 51 recordings 6 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 9 Sep

Steph McGovern’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is Money · 311. Why is the US debt crisis a big problem for Burnham? · 6 Sep 2026 podcast

And actually, I think if this was presented as, you know, we're gonna have to not put up your pension as much, right? matched

So it's still gonna go up. matched

State pension's still gonna go up, but it's not gonna go up as much. matched

And what that money is gonna do is fund this eighteen and a half billion pounds social care scheme, or it's gonna help the build the house the council housing and housing associations, all of these things. matched

Then then you c and that will make people happier and it will make people you know, if social care improves, that's good for older people anyway. matched

And I don't I but I think I think we tr we matched

Well we patronise voters sometimes. matched

I uh uh you know, of course when people think about making a decision to vote, they're thinking about have we got uh have we got a government uh who are doing the best for the country? matched

And you know in every budget, inevitably there's gonna be a hit on you in some way. matched

And so and y and you accept it if you know that there's a bigger purpose here, just to improve everyone's lives. matched

There's lots of older voters matched

Who care enormously about their grandkids and like whether they're gonna get a job and whether they're gonna be able to buy a house and all of these other things. matched

So I think it's around the messaging. matched

And you're right. matched

We've we heard Andy Burnham come in talking about circuit breaking and about you know, he sounded radical when he walked through the doors of number ten and and and uh but and he said some really interesting things on what he's gonna do matched

spending wise, but it's absolutely crucial to now go, right, I have delivered and told you about some things that we're gonna do. matched

I'm really sorry. matched

We are gonna have to cut some of these things, but don't worry because this is going to improve. matched

This is going to improve, infrastructure's gonna improve. matched

And then people will go, Right, okay, I can take a you know I I can handle that. matched

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