‘The political cost of keeping Thames Water privatised’
Labour can show its confidence by guaranteeing the decent supply of essential water and sewerage services for 16 million people.
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‘Thames Water creditors’ sewage deal will not wash with customers’
Polling shows Thames Water customers are outraged as creditors push to increase sewage pollution until 2040.
‘Public ownership unites right and left – and will help Labour defeat Reform’
Public ownership can be an essential part of telling a popular, patriotic story of the UK says Cat Hobbs of We Own It.
‘Five ways to bring rail fares down with public ownership’
This Labour government cannot afford to be unambitious about our railway and risk the flagship policy of public ownership.
‘British Steel can’t be a one-off. Labour should nationalise more key services’
Our public services are essential, natural monopolies, just as much critical national infrastructure as British Steel. The government should step in to protect them.
Budget bus fare row: ‘The £2 cap was a rare policy that dramatically improves lives – it’s so cheap people talk about it’
Keir Starmer is missing the point of the £2 bus fare. He’s failing to recognise that investment in public transport encourages travel and tourism and gets people to work, thereby boosting the economy. Meanwhile even a 10% increase in price…
‘Why Labour must go full steam ahead with fixing Britain’s railways’
Louise Haigh’s decision to bring rail franchises into public ownership is hugely welcome, but this ambition and vision must go alongside funding to cut fares and investment in expanding services.
‘Victory will be short-lived unless Labour fixes broken services with proper funding and public ownership’
The country is broken. NHS waiting lists spiralling out of control. Energy bills rising so fast they've sparked an inflation crisis. Rivers and seas full of sewage.
‘Labour must unite us around the NHS, not start fights and culture wars’
Under the Conservatives, our NHS has gone from being world-leading to on its knees. In 2014, a Commonwealth Fund study ranked the NHS as the best healthcare system in the world and the second cheapest of those analysed. Today, 250 patients…
Autumn statement 2023 unpacked: Where key policies leave Labour now
Jeremy Hunt has set out a raft of new measures in his autumn statement today, in a bid to start framing key new narratives on Tory-Labour divides in the run-up to the next election. We've asked some of our regular columnists (including new…
‘Labour can restore our NHS to glory – by reinstating it as a fully public service’
The NHS is the best thing this country has ever invented. Right now, Labour has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be the party that not only created it but restored it to glory after Tory neglect. In 2014, the NHS was the most efficient…
‘Voters are sick of being ripped off. Public ownership must be Labour’s solution’
Last week, Angela Rayner compared renationalisation to Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget, saying it would be ideological and cost billions of pounds and that we should rely on regulation instead. In the current political context, it’s…