The Guardian view on the water trade: a return to public possession ought to nonetheless be on the desk | Editorial

Labour might have chosen the general public curiosity over the revenue motive, because it set about its promised reorganisation of the water trade in England and Wales. Polling final 12 months confirmed a better stage of assist for publicly owned water corporations than railways. But whereas practice corporations are being renationalised as contracts expire, ministers dominated out a reversal of 1989’s water privatisation earlier than they commissioned Sir Jon Cunliffe, a former central banker, to report on how they may enhance this failing trade via harder regulation.