Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.

Andy Burnham hails nationalisation of much-criticised service between London, Birmingham and Glasgow

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander says the government will consider whether to make all new trains taxpayer owned after private leasing firms rake in billions of pounds

Welsh Water has fallen short on sewage pollution, despite having no shareholders for over two decades, chief acknowledges

Exclusive: Creation of GB Grid will be major step towards putting Britain’s utility companies into public control

Britain's mapping service provides data that could help predict the risk of future wildfires.

Nationalisation is not the ultimate answer for companies like Thames Water – but they could be run for the public benefit, say journalist and economist Will Hutton and former chief economist of the Ba...

ANDY BURNHAM has been urged to ditch his “worse than useless” plans to create regional water boards and commit to fully renationalising Thames Water, energy companies and the Royal Mail.The prime mini...

Government outsourcing has channelled public money into private profit, at the expense of workers’ rights, democratic accountability and service quality. Bringing services back in-house should be the ...

consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

Unions, thinktanks and others say overhaul could provide investment Britain needs

TfL officials will begin discussions with bus operators later this month

Labour MP Paul Davies, who led a Westminster Hall debate, said scrapping the “disastrous” privatised model could also help restore public trust in the sector

An explanation of why a referendum is a powerful and strategic demand in the fight for publicly owned water

Andy Burnham has used bold language on the water industry but we don't know how that will fare with the economic reality he faces - as Labour MPs urge him to go in different directions.

Honestly, what a mess

Charlie Maynard, Liberal Democrat MP for Witney, received the Rivers & Seas Award at the 2026 Political Purpose Awards.

Embattled UK utility faces mounting costs as government debates moving ahead with temporary nationalisation

Embattled UK utility faces mounting costs as government debates moving ahead with temporary nationalisation

When he came to power as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham said he wanted to end 40 years of neoliberalism, and repeatedly criticised the privatisation of life’s essentials.

For decades we were told that privatisation would deliver better services. The experience of millions of passengers tells a different story, says Steve Rotheram, mayor of Liverpool city region

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