Andy Burnham’s allies are drawing up plans to seize control of England’s sewage-dumping water companies – using the model that returned Paris’s water to public ownership.
The blueprint aims to bring the utility firms back under public control, cut household bills and tackle the pollution scandal that has fouled the nation’s waterways – as spotlighted by The i Paper‘s Save Britain’s Rivers campaign.
Burnham launched a scathing attack on “profiteering” water companies during his campaign to win the Makerfield by-election, arguing that dividend payments to shareholders should instead be used to lower consumer costs.
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The Paris model is seen as attractive because it was done relatively cheaply, although it will not be as simple for England.
