Is Britain's privatisation model broken?

FT Investigations by Financial Times

Jan 22, 201828:23News & Politics

Years of austerity and rising bills in the UK have eroded the consensus that private companies could run utilities more cheaply and efficiently than the state and opposition politicians are calling for renationalisation....

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