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Ministers are edging towards temporary state control of Britain's biggest water company. Whatever happens next, the priority must be customers and rivers, not the creditors who profited on the way up.
The Government's flagship rail reform is gathering pace, with further operators set to fall under public ownership through 2026 as the Railways Bill makes its way through Parliament.
With Thames Water lurching from crisis to crisis and a mayor calling for nationalisation, ministers are clinging to a reform plan the voters have already rejected in principle.
MPs approved the legislation that will fold most train operators and Network Rail into a single public body, sending it on to the House of Lords.