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Watch Tom and Paul LIVE every day on YouTube: http://bit.ly/3vTiACF. Bloomberg Surveillance hosted by Tom Keene & Paul Sweeney October 1st, 2025 Featuring: 1) Henrietta Treyz, co-founder at Veda Partners, joins to discuss the government shutdown and whether there's an end in sight. The US government shutdown is shaping up as a political quagmire for all involved, with President Donald Trump blaming "crazed" Democrats and Democrats trying to show their voters they can take a stand against Trump and his policies. 2) Amanda Lynam, Head: Corporate Credit at BlackRock, discusses any warning signs from the bond market as it relates to the government shutdown or if markets are looking right past it. Traders fear the loss of visibility will leave markets in the dark on the outlook for monetary policy, with the next Federal Reserve meeting still four weeks away. 3) Blerina Uruci, Chief US Economist at T. Rowe Price, discusses the economic impact of the government shutdown and where traders and economists will look for clues on the economy with key economic data on hold. The impact of the shutdown could be felt soon, with Trump's administration planning mass firings of government workers and the potential for public frustration and economic impact if the shutdown continues. 4) Lisa Mateo joins with the latest headlines in newspapers across the US, including a Business Insider story on the CEO of LinkedIn saying he relies on AI to help him write high stakes emails and Bloomberg's report on why retailers asking for a law to round to the nearest nickel.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has ended Westminster's summer holidays with a bang. Her admission she underpaid taxes on a property purchase has abruptly torpedoed the government's plans for a reset. Our UK politics reporter James Woolcock explains how the week fell apart for Labour. Meanwhile, we finally have a date for the Budget. Our senior UK economy reporter Philip Aldrick joins to discuss the chancellor's dilemmas over taxes. Hosted by Yuan Potts and Caroline Hepker.

More lobbyists than ever before plan to attend Reform UK’s annual conference next week in a sign corporate Britain is increasingly taking Nigel Farage’s small parliamentary party seriously as an electoral force. Exclusive polling shared with Bloomberg finds that public affairs professionals are now engaging with Reform as if it could become a credible alternative to power. We talk to Jon Gerlis from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations about why business sees Reform UK as impossible to ignore. Hosted by Caroline Hepker and James Woolcock.

Labour and the Tories have both set sky-high ambitions for what artificial intelligence can do for public services and the economy. But are those goals realistic, and will they come quickly enough for voters to see the results? We discuss with Labour MP Josh Simons, and Nic Prettejohn, head of AI for the UK and Nordics at tech firm Palantir, which has several major IT contracts with the government. Hosted by Yuan Potts and Stephen Carroll.

Record levels of pollution have been reported in Britain's water supplies at a time when household bills are skyrocketing. The largest company in the sector, Thames Water, is on the brink of collapse, leaving the Labour government with difficult choices to make. Our reporter Priscila Azevedo Rocha unpacks the debt crisis at the company, and Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney give us her view on what the government should do. Hosted by Stephen Carroll and Lizzy Burden.