The crisis facing the UK water industry
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Pressure is growing on the UK’s water sector, as swelling debt threatens to overwhelm Thames Water and other companies. What is the remedy for the country’s sewage and water woes? Lucy Fisher discusses the options with the FT’s infrastructure correspondent Gill Plimmer. Plus the FT’s Robert Shrimsley and Miranda Green discuss the Court of Appeal ruling against the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. And with by-elections approaching, Lucy visits Boris Johnson’s former constituency to hear voters’ views on the ground.
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| 0:34.4 | You can't ignore the serious failures, the fact that lots of the beaches around England |
| 0:39.9 | have been closed several times in the past year. |
| 0:42.9 | It's absolutely appalling really. |
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| 0:47.2 | Welcome to Political Fix, the essential insider guide to Westminster |
| 0:55.7 | from the Financial Times with me, Lucy Fisher, the FT's Whitehall Editor. |
| 1:00.2 | You heard they're the FT's Jill Plimmer talking about the mess in the water industry. |
| 1:04.9 | Well this week we're racing towards summer recess. |
| 1:07.5 | There isn't much going on in the commons but the news has been non-stop. |
| 1:11.8 | Tim's water looks like it could go bust plus the government's got a new plan to boost the NHS workforce. |
| 1:17.6 | Meanwhile, the PM's been told by the Court of Appeal that his flagship plan to send asylum |
| 1:21.7 | seekers to Rwanda is illegal, and then as if there wasn't enough going on, |
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