11 Jun 2026
Image description: A pole with a sign that says polling station. Photo by Phil Hearing on Unsplash Andy Burnham, Greater Manchester’s mayor and Labour’s candidate for the Makerfield by-election, has said public ownership of Thames Water is the right approach, citing the company’s pattern of regulatory failures and ongoing financial crisis. Speaking to Newsnight, he […]
26 Sep 2017
At the Labour Party conference, John McDonnell pledged that a future Labour government’s new breed of public-owned energy supply will be based on renewable power sources. In his keynote speech at the Labour Party annual conference today, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer said that the recent storms and flooding over recent months had been […]
15 Sep 2015
The new Labour leader has previously set out his environmental ambitions. They include international leadership on climate change, investment in green energy and protection of ecosystems. Jeremy Corbyn has previously written that “the major electricity, gas, water and railway infrastructures of Britain were built through public investment since the end of WWII and were all […]