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Simon Nixon

Simon Nixon

British businessman

Sep 7, 2026

16:43
Well, it turns out not to be true.
16:45
And we did this across the whole of the economy.
16:47
So we prioritised efficiency, but we also assumed that efficiency would make us resilient.
16:53
And actually, none of these assumptions really played out.
16:56
And, but what it did do by, you know, was that we ended up with this financial services bubble, which burst in 2007.
17:05
And now since then, we've been hit by a series of other shocks that have shown us to be unresilient.
17:10
The pandemic showed that we had lack of resilience in our health system.

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34:47
water, yeah.
39:16
As the UK prepares for its seventh prime minister in 10 years, how stark has the trajectory of both countries been since then?
39:23
Well, Thanos, yes, as you say, it was an extraordinary decade that, and I say that those two stories, those two crises did dominate my life.
39:33
And what is extraordinary is that in the years, I mean, I never believed that Brexit was really going to happen.
39:40
Although plenty of people in Britain not only thought it was going to happen, but actively were hoping it would happen because they thought it would happen.
39:49
Leads to the collapse of the European Union, which was what many of them had always, a lot of sort of on the Brexit right in the UK had often wanted.
39:57
So there was a huge interest in Brexit in Britain.
40:01
But in a sense, it played a role.

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46:00
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