Will Farage get a job with Trump? Why can't the water companies go bankrupt?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
On Monday we published an investigation by business editor Will Dunn into England's water and sewage crisis. Will joins Hannah Barnes, associate editor, and Freddie Hayward, political correspondent, on this episode of You Ask Us to answer some listener questions on the water companies.
The team also give their 90:50:10 predictions for this year in British politics.
Read: The Great Stink: Britain’s pollution crisis
Listen: The Great Stink: how England came to swim in sewage
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| 0:27.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:33.0 | Statesman. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes and this is an episode we like to call you ask us. |
| 0:42.0 | We've had questions and comments coming in this |
| 0:44.3 | week via the website, YouTube and Spotify. If you'd like to get in touch we've put |
| 0:48.4 | everything you need to know in the show notes. This week I'm joined by |
| 0:52.2 | Will Dunn, business editor at the New Statesman, |
| 0:55.2 | and Freddie Haywood, our political correspondent. Now Will, you wrote last week's cover story, The Great Stink, |
| 1:01.3 | which also featured on the podcast on Monday, and it's well worth a listen |
| 1:04.1 | if you haven't done so yet. You can find all the links in the show notes again. |
| 1:08.7 | We've had a couple of questions coming in about that, so let's kick off with that. |
| 1:12.2 | So here's one from Charlie who |
| 1:14.4 | listened to the podcast and he says at around the 13 minute mark it stated that |
| 1:19.7 | if Thames Water is placed in special administration, shareholders will lose around 40% of their |
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