The Budget and the battle for tech entrepreneurs
The Times Tech Podcast
Will Morley
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
The British Chancellor, Rachel Reeves has delivered her now annual Budget Statement - a sort of economic State of the United Kingdom address to parliament. And in it she promised to work with founders and investors to make the UK an "even more attractive place" to grow their business - "if you build here, Britain will back you!" So is Danny likely to join entrepreneurs in San Francisco and Dubai for the flight back to London? To help them decide, Katie brought in special guest, Alex Depledge, a serial tech entrepreneur and the first Entrepreneurship Advisor to the Treasury, who has worked closely with Rachel Reeves.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you sad that you're not having a holiday like Thanksgiving, which is the best? |
| 0:08.1 | We just have Budget Day. |
| 0:09.9 | Okay. |
| 0:11.2 | But, so we don't have Thanksgiving. |
| 0:14.1 | We've got Budget Day. |
| 0:16.6 | Budget day. |
| 0:27.8 | So if you don't have a budget day in the way that we have this very special. |
| 0:29.4 | It's so British. |
| 0:35.0 | When our spending decisions make, just all the time throughout the year. |
| 0:40.1 | Yeah, that's why we've been having these government shutdowns because Congress has the power of the purse and all of that stuff. |
| 0:42.0 | So it's not like the UK where on budget day, the chancellor comes with their red box |
| 0:47.4 | and opens it up and says, okay, this is what we're doing with all of your money. |
| 0:52.3 | And this is our vision. |
| 0:53.7 | And this is why you guys should |
| 0:55.0 | be happy, not depressed. And then half the country goes, yay. And the other half goes, ah, and start |
| 0:59.7 | squeaking, which is exactly what's happened today. So the question that we're looking at this week is, |
| 1:04.6 | is anything going to change in the world of British tech after this budget? To put it another way, can AI and or tech save us all? |
| 1:14.6 | Can it save the economy? |
| 1:16.6 | No pressure. |
| 1:18.6 | And that, Danny, is our special guest today, Alex DePledge, |
| 1:22.6 | who's a serial tech entrepreneur, the founder of Rezi, |
| 1:25.6 | which is a digital architectural services firm, |
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