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UK environment secretary has reportedly objected to a £10bn rescue proposal for [Thames Water](https://www.theguardian.com/business/thames-water) because it would place an “undue burden” on consumers, pushing the troubled utilities firm closer towards public ownership
UK utilities in an effort to improve performance and potentially reduce bills for consumers. The move would constitute one of the biggest transfers of ownership of British industry since the privatisations of the 1980s
public ownership of essential utilities including water, maximum regional revolution. And this result has to mark the end to the hyperfactionalism that has dragged the Labour party down. These are from **Luke Tryl**, the More
public ownership of utilities – particularly Thames Water. They are also calling for changes to the government’s fiscal rules to allow it to borrow more, but only after the next election. In the immediate term
UK. Those constraints were evident in Burnham’s statement at the weekend that he will stick to Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules – meaning any further expansion of public spending will have to be paid
UK’s largest water company, ministers and creditors are [locked in a stalemate](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/19/thames-water-rescue-deal-threatened-uncertainty-prime-minister) as they try to agree a rescue deal to stave off Thames’s collapse. The water company built