# Britain is ‘SKATING ON THIN FISCAL ICE’ - former Bank of England economist

An episode of [The Fourcast](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1542796249), 21 Sep 2026, 34 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/1056b19ac/podcast/play/126093621/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-21%2F432375166-44100-2-384821ef46ddb.mp3

Can Andy Burnham turn the UK economy around? With just a few weeks to go until his first Budget, the new prime minister is facing a difficult economic outlook, as he deals with sluggish growth, the rising cost of living and a war in Iran which threatens to send inflation soaring. In this episode of The Fourcast, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to the former chief economist of the Bank of England Andy Haldane and Channel 4’s Economics Editor Helia Ebrahimi. They discuss cuts to welfare, the pensions triple lock and Britain’s problem with young NEETS: those not in education, employment or training.

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