UK – ‘More public control’: what will Burnham do about water and energy?
When the former Undertones frontman turned campaigner Feargal Sharkey backed Keir Starmer for prime minister in 2024, he hoped that the Labour leader would be the man to clean up Britain’s polluted rivers and bring the water industry into public ownership – starting with troubled Thames Water.
Two years later, Sharkey has been disappointed. Now he is hoping that Andy Burnham will begin the job when he is confirmed as prime minister.
“This privatisation has been an unmitigated, catastrophic disaster,” Sharkey said, but rather than face the problem the Labour government has so far chosen to “kick the can down the road. There is no more road,” he added.
