250. Business Secretary Peter Kyle: being let down by Mandelson & the UK-China relationship
The Rest Is Money
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Epstein, particularly Peter Mandelson's connection to it all. |
| 0:03.6 | He is a man who has had various important positions in politics. |
| 0:08.1 | He's also a man who's had to resign quite a few times. |
| 0:11.1 | There's a lot of scandal. |
| 0:12.4 | What is it that keeps getting him re-employed? |
| 0:15.5 | Why did Starrma bring him back to be US ambassador knowing that there's this dark past? |
| 0:20.3 | We do regard China as a threat to |
| 0:23.6 | our security. Security experts, they say there are security risks. So with solar panels, they're at the |
| 0:30.4 | heart of our energy infrastructure. It is absolutely conceivable that China can put a kill switch |
| 0:35.4 | into solar panels. This episode is brought to you by Octopus Energy. |
| 0:40.3 | Now you know we love talking to entrepreneurs on this show. |
| 0:43.3 | So with us is the founder of Octopus Energy, Greg Jackson. |
| 0:47.3 | Right, I'm going to start with this. |
| 0:49.3 | If you could change one thing to help Britain's economy grow, what would it be? |
| 0:53.3 | I'd love to see pension funds |
| 0:54.9 | putting more money into British businesses. Over the last 25 years, they've fallen from 40% of |
| 1:01.8 | their investments going to British businesses to 4%. That's bad for business here. It's bad for |
| 1:06.4 | our stock market, but it's also bad for pensioners. In fact, a Canadian pensioner will get |
| 1:10.7 | almost double the pension from the same amount invested as bad for pensioners. In fact, a Canadian pensioner will get almost double the pension |
| 1:11.9 | from the same amount invested as a British pensioner. We need to sort that. Nice one, Greg. Well, |
| 1:17.6 | thanks to Octopus Energy for powering this episode of The Rest is Money. This episode is brought to you |
| 1:26.2 | by Zero Accounting Software. |
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