Robert Peston
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Sep 29, 2026
Dan BowyerHOST
I did.
Dan BowyerHOST
I saw Saul was talking with Robert Peston.
Dan BowyerHOST
They were kind of musing on the British scene.
Dan BowyerHOST
I thought it was a lovely event up in North London, darling.
Amanda BlancGUEST
I mean, you may know what a lawyer was or you may know what an accountant or a doctor was, but nobody really knew about leading business.
Amanda BlancGUEST
So I think, you know, things like Speakers for Schools and the work that Robert Peston and the team do there is phenomenal for, Getting leaders to go back into the school, often this type of schools that they went to, and I've done that in a couple of schools in Wales, to go back in and talk about your experience.
Amanda BlancGUEST
Because I think, you know, if you can't see it, you can't be it.
Amanda BlancGUEST
I think seeing that there are opportunities that you could do that, but you have to know about them.
Josh GardnerHOST
So really looking forward to that.
Josh GardnerHOST
He also looks a bit like Robert Peston, this guy, which isn't helping.
Lee CalvertHOST
I don't know.
Lee CalvertHOST
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Julie EtchinghamHOST
Hello and welcome to Talking Politics with me, Julie Etchingham.
Julie EtchinghamHOST
And with me, Robert Peston.
Julie EtchinghamHOST
We are at the Labour Party conference where the mood is buoyant, I would say, Robert, wouldn't you? Verging on giddy with the welcome for the new leader and his first big set piece, his big speech coming tomorrow to conference.
Julie EtchinghamHOST
Big focus today, of course, has been on the Chancellor's speech, John Healey.
Krishnan Guru-MurthyHOST
No.
Krishnan Guru-MurthyHOST
I was listening to one on the way in this morning, and you're having a go at Robert Peston and Josh Widdicombe and all these things, and you're kind of thinking, it's a bit close to the bone there, and I wonder if the BBC were going, could you not say that on Radio 4, or no?
Alexei SayleGUEST
No, no.
Alexei SayleGUEST
No, I don't think we've ever...
Ed ConwayGUEST
Um, but on the other hand, and, and, and that, maybe that could mean that our car industry could survive and compete with China.
Ed ConwayGUEST
But on the other hand, do you really want to raise costs for everyone across the UK? And actually, that balancing act is, is not a straightforward one, and as you say, Robert, historically the UK has definitely lent towards prioritizing cheap things over domestic production, like for, for hundreds of years actually, going back to the Corn Laws.
Ed ConwayGUEST
Um, we've lent, we've lent on, towards cheap stuff.
Ed ConwayGUEST
But are we now living in a world where we start to think to ourselves, "Well, hang on.
10 MINS LATER
Ed ConwayGUEST
I think obviously China has been planning a, a bigger emphasis on manufacturing for a long time.
Ed ConwayGUEST
Um, they've been thinking about where they procure minerals.
Ed ConwayGUEST
And then interestingly, actually, Robert, you know, when you think about it, America has far more in the way of mineral plenty than China does.
Ed ConwayGUEST
It's got loads of oil and gas.
Tom BradbyHOST
I'm Tom Bradby.
Tom BradbyHOST
And I'm Robert Paston.
Tom BradbyHOST
And we're joined by our esteemed and brilliant colleague Romilly Weeks, who has just got off a flight back from New York.
Tom BradbyHOST
She's been there on the Prime Minister's plane.
22 MINS LATER
Tom BradbyHOST
Obviously, The American military likes the base at Diego Garcia, doesn't understand why we're giving it back.
Tom BradbyHOST
That doesn't really fit with the MAGA worldview.
Tom BradbyHOST
Before I get Robert's view, Romilly, I'm just interested to know, Burnham sort of sounded like he was going to depart from Starmer, but then didn't really give us any clarity about it.
Tom BradbyHOST
Did you feel you left with clarity about what his intentions actually are?
George OsborneHOST
Hmm
Ed BallsHOST
... because I thought, you know, we were gonna be dressed down because of Robert Peston's rendition of "Jolene," that somehow the, the Dollywood Foundation would think Centrist Dad had taken-
George OsborneHOST
Hmm
Ed BallsHOST
... a step too far.
Ed BallsHOST
I mean, I don't think this is always clear, uh, what I'm about to say.
Ed BallsHOST
So, within our band set, I actually think that our rendition of Pink Pony Club is actually better than Chappell Roan's, which is controversial.
Ed BallsHOST
But I think "Jolene," I think Dolly Parton did it better than Robert Peston and Centrist Dad.
Ed BallsHOST
That is my, that is my view.
Rafe Heydel-MankooHOST
It was the selection of what they were going to tell you was what you weren't being told was as important.
Rafe Heydel-MankooHOST
In fact, you gave one example more recently where Robert Peston is on the beach in the UAE with Keir Starmer.
Mike GrahamGUEST
Yes.
Mike GrahamGUEST
In the midst of the Morgan McSweeney phone scandal, we still don't know what happens to Morgan McSweeney's phone, despite the fact that we are the most CCTV-covered city in the world.
Mike GrahamGUEST
He was like the chief of staff inside Downing Street, all-seeing.
Mike GrahamGUEST
He'd got rid of Sue Gray, who was meant to be the, you know, the next Bo De Silla.
Mike GrahamGUEST
And here he was... suddenly just out of a job having been fired because you know he had to go because of his links to Peter Mandelson and so in the midst of all of that Keir Starmer takes a trip to the UAE Robert Peston gets an exclusive interview with him walking on the I want to say the beach I suppose it was the beach in Dubai and he didn't ask him about Morgan McSweeney and he had access he was standing right next to him there was nobody in the way there were no spads there were no you know bodyguards nobody And yet, when he got to ask him one question about his phone, he said to him, do you have WhatsApp? Yeah.
Mike GrahamGUEST
And who's your favorite leader to talk to on WhatsApp? And he said, some bloke who's the Finnish prime minister.
MarkHOST
that what they did was illegal.
MarkHOST
So anyway, Farage, as I look in at the end of the conference with Robert Peston, and in an attempt to distract from his sacking of the two people featured in the documentary, despite having done nothing wrong, he points out the corruption inherent in all of the political parties.
Robert PestonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, look, you've got rid of the two internal architects of all this, James Orr and Darren Dukes.
Robert PestonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah.
Nigel FarageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, no, no, I'm not saying that for a moment.
Nigel FarageSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'd equally say, have a look at Labour's donors pre-24 and government contracts that have been given out.
MarkHOST
Yeah, and actually, to his benefit, Robert Peston said, yeah, that's just whataboutery.
speaker_4UNKNOWN
And I like the fact that he kind of...
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