224. Would Ousting Starmer Risk Economic Meltdown?

The Rest Is Money

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Politics, Business, News

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🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How much will a political coup against the Prime Minister affect the confidence of UK investors? Are Reform capitalising on Rachel Reeves’ negativity? Can the Treasury find enough money to solve the national scandal of deprivation against the backdrop of a £30bn fiscal black hole? Robert and Steph discuss. Get started today at https://www.HubSpot.com Find out how Google AI is helping fuel the UK's growth and transformation at https://www.goo.gle/10stories Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠restismoney@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheRestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheRestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://⁠⁠⁠goalhanger.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.1	No, but I just want to challenge that a minute, Robert Littwright, I just want to challenge you.
0:37.1	The effect of debt being high people care about, but they don't care about national debt in itself.
0:43.1	And it's the wrong language to use with people to say, or I'm going to bring down national debt.
0:48.9	People in the street don't give a shit.
1:05.1	Hello and welcome to The Rest is Money with me, Steph McGovern.
1:06.6	And with me, Robert Pest.
1:08.0	Great to see you, Steph.
1:09.1	Yes, I am back.
1:31.0	Thanks for Manning the fort for me. I know you've done a brilliant job. I've been listening in. And what a time to be back, because, I mean, we've got to start, haven't we, with the chaos in the leadership of the Labour Party. You know, government, again, we're talking about possible takeovers by other members of the party, wanting to oust Stama, you know, this West Street in,
1:36.2	has denied Ian tends to challenge Stama, but what is going on? This is mad, isn't it?
2:04.2	Yeah, look, the underlying problems are that, you know, Kirstarmer's own rating has plummeted in the polls, the rating of the Labour Party is plummeting in the polls, in, you know, many polls, the Greens are now more popular than Labour. So there is a lot of unhappiness on the Labour benches with the leadership. We're recording Wednesday morning. And I think we probably, you know, need to broaden it out into a general discussion, because I suspect in the
2:08.6	course of this day, quite a lot will happen. But last night was, it was either a comedy or a
2:14.4	tragedy, depending on your point of view, but it was one of the most extraordinary
2:18.1	sort of dramas of a sort of political sort that I've witnessed, and extraordinary in the
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