
Simon Nixon
British businessman
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Sep 7, 2026
Brexit Britain's growing debt crisis
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Simon NixonGUEST
So we prioritised efficiency, but we also assumed that efficiency would make us resilient.

Simon NixonGUEST
And, but what it did do by, you know, was that we ended up with this financial services bubble, which burst in 2007.

Simon NixonGUEST
And now since then, we've been hit by a series of other shocks that have shown us to be unresilient.
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Trump's arms sale to Turkey, Erdogan and the NATO summit, and 10 years since Brexit
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Thanos DavelisHOST
As the UK prepares for its seventh prime minister in 10 years, how stark has the trajectory of both countries been since then?

Simon NixonGUEST
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.

Simon NixonGUEST
And what is extraordinary is that in the years, I mean, I never believed that Brexit was really going to happen.

Simon NixonGUEST
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.

Simon NixonGUEST
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.
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