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Celebrities slam privatisation as campaign calls on election candidates to protect NHS

Hannah Davenport
14 February, 2024

“The spirit and the idea of the health service is important and alive today as it ever was, unless we allow it to be run into the ground. So let’s fight for it.”

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Demands for public ownership as water bills set to rise above inflation

Chris Jarvis
2 February, 2024

Average bills are expected to rise by 6% from April

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New polling reveals why people fly rather than take the train

Chris Jarvis
17 January, 2024

This indicates what steps may be needed to encourage people to travel by train

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Revealed: Where up to a quarter of your water bill is really going

Chris Jarvis
18 December, 2023

It’s been branded ‘daylight robbery’

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Anti-privatisation campaigners urge new health secretary to reinstate NHS as fully public service

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
19 November, 2023

‘Our NHS cares about the health of our nation, private companies care to make as much profit as possible.’

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Three water firms ILLEGALLY dumped sewage for 3,500 hours in 2022, reports suggest

Chris Jarvis
5 September, 2023

The news has led to calls for public ownership of water firms

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking at the dispatch box in the House of Commons

Campaigners demand Keir Starmer commits to ending NHS privatisation

Chris Jarvis
31 August, 2023

“The call from the public is too clear for Keir Starmer to ignore – we want an NHS we can be proud of again.”

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Majority of public support taking shares off polluting water companies instead of fines – poll

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
30 July, 2023

‘Under privatisation, it pays to pollute.’

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Take Thames Water into public ownership petition amasses tens of thousands of signatures

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
2 July, 2023

The English model of privatisation is not normal, as 90 percent of the world runs water in public ownership.

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Water firm ‘profiteering’ slammed over news of ‘outrageous’ plans to raise bills by 40%

Chris Jarvis
28 June, 2023

Calls to take water firms into public ownership have intensified

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