Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley
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Sep 11, 2026
Ding HengHOST
Mr. Zhou Bo, turning to you.
Ding HengHOST
Jim O'Neill, the British economist who first coined this term BRIC back in the year 2001, he has repeatedly said that China and India need to cooperate seriously if BRICS is to become a genuine economic force across the world.
Ding HengHOST
So before we are to explore how China-India relationship and cooperation might increase the global influence of the BRICS, what do you think are some of the aspects where the BRICS is yet to become more influential internationally?
Zhou BoGUEST
Well, just now Professor Nanapath talked correctly about the importance of the three major powers in this organization, that is China, India and Russia.
Zhou BoGUEST
Terrorism, yeah, it is a genuine issue, but it can be addressed more easily than the conflict between countries, among SEO countries.
Ding HengHOST
Yeah, SEO and BRICS, they are parallel to each other, but in the meantime, they also share a lot of similarities, that's for sure.
Ding HengHOST
So, Peter, going to you, in a recent media interview, Jim O'Neill, this British economist, he called for greater cooperation between China and India in opening up their bilateral trade barriers.
Ding HengHOST
seriously considering a BRICS-wide payment system and other areas such as infectious diseases management, global energy requirements and climate change, carbon emissions reduction, I guess.
Garry CookGUEST
Andy Burnham, you know, grew up in the, in the Sir Howard Bernstein, Sir Richard Leese era, but it was a- as much to do with economics.
Garry CookGUEST
Lord Jim O'Neill, one of Andy Burnham's close friends, and certainly one of the great economists, talk- talks about devolution, which is basically empowering the city That you live in to attract and, and leverage all of your assets to attract private investment in order to generate economic growth and the, and the government can support that.
Garry CookGUEST
And so that fundamental economic policy is one that Andy Burnham believes strongly in, and that's how I would define Manchesterism.
Garry CookGUEST
It was a way to attract private investors into helping you build your city, and you had to try and find a way to help support them in their quest to give them s- uh, y- preferential s- circumstances.
Jason HarwoodHOST
And I gotta be honest with you.
Jason HarwoodHOST
They're both in the building, uh, Listen to Jim O'Neill sounds like there's a ramp up period.
Jason HarwoodHOST
And I don't know.
Jason HarwoodHOST
I think maybe this might, he didn't really distinguish between the two.
Jason HarwoodHOST
He said, the videos are going well.
Jason HarwoodHOST
It's kind of the most information that we've got on Kirby in a while.
Jason HarwoodHOST
Uh, Jim O'Neill shared.
Jason HarwoodHOST
So I hopefully, cause he seemed a lot more positive about it and maybe that's just him and Dan's just being, has been very protective.
Ed BallsHOST
We were talking about John Healey and the challenges he's facing.
Ed BallsHOST
Lord Jim O'Neill-
George OsborneHOST
Mm
Ed BallsHOST
... who was a minister with you-
George OsborneHOST
Mm
Ed BallsHOST
... "They're, they're not listening to me." Yeah, they clearly offered him lots of different jobs.
Ed BallsHOST
What's going on with Jim O'Neill? Why is, why is he being so unhelpful to Andy Burnham and John Healey?
George OsborneHOST
Well, I, [laughs] I know Jim really well, and I...
Ben RubinHOST
Last week, I talked to you through this diagram, which essentially describes 30 years of Manchesterism.
Ben RubinHOST
So this is Andy Burnham, our new prime minister's governing philosophy, which actually, as we revealed, was developed by, largely by Jim O'Neill from Goldman Sachs and Barathon Bank.
Ben RubinHOST
Baron Jonathan Kestenbaum, who is now amongst other things, one of the trustees at the Rothschild Foundation and also Lord Sainsbury and his Centre for Cities, which came up in that report that you just saw from 2017.
Ben RubinHOST
So again, just the parallels between what was happening then and what we're seeing today are absolutely extraordinary.
Nick FerrariHOST
Back here in the UK, new-ish Chancellor John Healey, ahead of the budget next month, makes a big what's called set-piece speech, but there's quite a background there.
Nick FerrariHOST
He's going to say that the country has turned the corner and making its way, but what of pressure to scrap the triple lock next month? Economist and Burnham ally Jim, now Lord O'Neill, told LBC last week...
Jim O'NeillSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Who's going to get real in this country about the challenges of getting our debt down and controlling spending?
Nick FerrariHOST
So what does Kelsey Grammer, Dr. Fraser Crane, really make of his close friend, President Trump? What does he make of what he seems to be a lack of patriotism across the United States? Be sure to stay tuned for that radio-exclusive interview and his intriguing views regarding COVID.
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Nick FerrariHOST
Context is everything.
Nick FerrariHOST
One of my colleagues did some research and discovered that if the Pippa Lock were to stay in place, and we've just heard from a government minister suggesting it's not going anyplace, within a couple of years it could cost over £15 billion.
Nick FerrariHOST
It's a lot of money, isn't it? Close ally and economist, Jim, now Lord O'Neill, told LBC last week his views on the triple lock.
Jim O'NeillSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Anybody that was going to take credible action to deal with the excesses of the triple lock or the excesses of welfare spending, some proper reforms of housing, and maybe try to really embed a more serious plan for stopping the never-ending rise in health spending, the bond markets would probably respond really favourably.
Simon LambertHOST
So really, we need to get real on the triple lock.
Simon LambertHOST
And, you know, Jim O'Neill came out this week, who has been an advisor to Andy Burnham and said, you know, we need to be talking about some of these sacred cows.
Simon LambertHOST
Or the alternative is we just need to pay a lot more tax.
Simon LambertHOST
But we are already paying quite a lot of tax if you look at it on the tax burden sense.
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
The question is more the market reaction at the budget.
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
We've had Jim O'Neill, a critical friend of Andy Burnham's, who was advising him until recently, who's given...
Ailbhe ReaGUEST
A series of quite tricky interviews this week saying that another budget where you just put up taxes and you sort of don't have a serious growth plan, it just isn't viable.
David BlunkettGUEST
Unless you kickstart growth on a big scale, the proportion of your national income... you'll spend on debt is inevitably going to rise.
Sal DodgsonHOST
Things that haven't worked, I don't think his devolution kind of claims of rolling out devolution across the country are going to work.
Sal DodgsonHOST
Because he was trying to get Jim O'Neill, who worked with him in Manchester, who's a sort of economist and financial advisor.
Sal DodgsonHOST
But O'Neill said he wouldn't work with Burnham as prime minister.
Sal DodgsonHOST
He's not interested.
Sal DodgsonHOST
So that's kind of created a real upset in the markets because Jim O'Neill was seen as this kind of safe economic pair of hands to help out.
Sal DodgsonHOST
And he said no.
Sal DodgsonHOST
And a quote from Jim O'Neill.
Sal DodgsonHOST
said, you've got to focus on London, Jim O'Neill said.
Robert ShrimsleyPANELIST
these? It's a niche interest of mine.
Jim PickardPANELIST
I'm starting to wonder whether Andy Burnham's going to regret befriending Jim O'Neill, the former investment banker and very high profile economist who has worked with Burnham in the past, but is now sort of taking pot shots from the sidelines.
Jim PickardPANELIST
And he said after that appearance earlier in the week that, you know, I'm not sure the markets are going to like that very much.
Jim PickardPANELIST
And it makes me wonder whether Burnham's going to regret having sort of taken his advice so publicly for so long.
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