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Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

With Farage backing steel nationalisation, is public ownership back in fashion?

Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards

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Society & Culture, News, Politics

4.6825 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

For decades nationalisation was the great taboo in British politics, while privatisation was deemed the great triumph of Thatcherism. Blair and Brown were opposed to any attempt to renationalise – but now there is cross party support for the nationalisation of British Steel, the railways are being renationalised and there is huge support for the government to take over water companies. What’s happening… and why? Rock & Roll Politics is live at Kings Place on May 8th. Tickets available here. Subscribe to Patreon for live events, bonus podcasts and to get the regular podcast a day early and ad free.  Written and presented by Steve Richards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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who's home to look after his daughters during their holidays.

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0:49.9

Conditions apply. Hello and welcome to rock and roll politics, the podcast with me, Steve Richards.

0:52.0

Thank you for tuning in.

0:57.2

And as ever, we've got a lot to cram in in our time together if it's okay with all of you i will reflect on the fascinating politics the to some extent still

1:04.4

under analyzed politics of public ownership and privatization, which is coming to the fore again

1:14.2

in very interesting ways with the emergency sitting of the House of Commons on Saturday,

1:20.1

with the government seeking permission in effect to bring British Steel back into public

1:25.8

ownership while still looking at other options.

1:28.8

Now, as I record this, things are all quite precarious and moving quickly,

1:33.4

but that doesn't overlook what was a really interesting occasion at Westminster,

1:41.0

where you had reform backing public ownership. People like Ian Duncan Smith saying he was supportive

1:48.3

of public ownership at least temporarily. And this government of timid instincts on the whole moving

1:57.1

towards that end. And in the House of Lords, you had Morris Glassman, the newly

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