{"podcast":{"title":"Big Boss Interview","slug":"big-boss-interview-316999","podcast_index_feed_id":316999,"rss_url":"https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p016tl04.rss","website_url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p016tl04","image_url":"http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/3000x3000/p0m4j7fr.jpg","author":"BBC","episode_count":266,"summary":"Big Boss Interview is where the most high-profile chief executives and entrepreneurs come to give you their insights and experiences of running the world's biggest and well-known businesses. The series is presented by Sean Farrington, Felicity Hannah and Will Bain, who you'd normally hear presenting the business news on BBC Radio 4's Today programme as well as BBC 5 Live's Wake Up To Money. Each week they'll be finding out just what it takes to run a huge organisation and what the day to day challenges and opportunities are. You can get in contact with the team by emailing bigboss@bbc.co.uk","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T10:20:46.494996+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-boss-interview-316999"},"episode":{"title":"#30 PwC UK: The Chancellor Should Break Her Fiscal Rules","slug":"30-pwc-uk-the-chancellor-should-break-her-fiscal-rules","published_at":"2026-03-13T00:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-boss-interview-316999/30-pwc-uk-the-chancellor-should-break-her-fiscal-rules","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-boss-interview-316999","url":"http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0n64rn7","audio_url":"http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss-low/proto/http/vpid/p0n64nss.mp3","summary":"Marco Amitrano, European boss of PwC, joins the Big Boss Interview to discuss the UK economy, artificial intelligence, business confidence and the case for loosening the government’s fiscal rules to unlock infrastructure investment. Amitrano makes a direct appeal to Chancellor Rachel Reeves to reconsider the government’s borrowing limits, arguing that strict fiscal rules risk preventing the investment needed for long-term economic growth. He says the UK faces what has been described to him as a £2 trillion infrastructure gap, spanning transport, digital networks and the energy grid. Relaxing borrowing restrictions, he argues, could allow government to invest alongside business in the technology, talent and infrastructure needed to make the UK globally competitive. Amitrano acknowledges that markets may initially react with higher borrowing costs, but says a transparent plan showing how spending would drive growth could reassure bond investors. Artificial intelligence is already reshaping the professional services sector, with Amitrano revealing that more than 80% of chief executives globally are making material investments in AI, and around 60% now see it as critical to their organisation’s survival. He discusses how the technology is transforming how businesses operate, while pushing back against claims that AI is already replacing large numbers of graduate jobs. PwC recently reduced its graduate intake from around 1,500 to 1,300, but Amitrano says that decision was driven by a slowdown in demand following the November 2024 Budget, not automation. The firm still receives roughly 400,000 applications each year and uses AI only in the early stages of screening before human interviews. Before the recent escalation in the Middle East, Amitrano says business confidence had…","meta_description":"Marco Amitrano, European boss of PwC, joins the Big Boss Interview to discuss the UK economy, artificial intelligence, business confidence and the case fo…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2401,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/big-boss-interview-316999/episodes/30-pwc-uk-the-chancellor-should-break-her-fiscal-rules/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/big-boss-interview-316999/30-pwc-uk-the-chancellor-should-break-her-fiscal-rules.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}