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🗓️ 22 July 2025
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Susan Hulme reports from Westminster as Rachel Reeves says less regulation and more risk-taking are required to drive economic growth.
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
0:05.1 | Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast for Tuesday the 22nd of July. |
0:11.4 | Coming up, the Chancellor tells peers that growth involves more risk-taking |
0:15.4 | and less protection for wildlife that stands in the way of development. |
0:19.4 | I sort of laid into bats and newts and lizards and whatever, I don't know about lizards, |
0:24.6 | great christed nukes. |
0:26.5 | Also calls for better redundancy terms for workers as the Lindsay Oil Refinery is set to close. |
0:33.2 | Please go beyond asking the company nicely to do the right thing and require it. |
0:38.3 | And how social media is damaging children's mental health and leading to school absence. |
0:44.4 | Social media to kids is not appropriate. You get bullied in your bedroom. |
0:49.8 | But first, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves has doubled down on her view that less business regulation and more risk-taking generally are needed to boost the UK economy. |
1:00.7 | Her comments came as the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, proposed a more cautious approach. |
1:06.7 | Both were appearing before parliamentary committees today. |
1:10.2 | In her Mansion House speech in the city last week, Rachel Reeves suggested watering down some of the financial services regulations that were brought in after the 2008 banking crisis. |
1:22.6 | When Andrew Bailey appeared before MPs on the Treasury Committee, the Labour chair Dame Meg Hillier, |
1:28.3 | wondered if he thought that was a good idea. |
1:31.0 | The chance has been very trenchant. |
1:32.3 | She talks about regulations being the boot on the neck of the financial services firms. |
1:37.3 | Do you agree with that? |
1:39.1 | I don't use those terms. |
1:42.2 | Let me say that. |
1:43.7 | So what language would you use if you want to respond to that? |
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