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Daisy Cooper: “Cooper said energy network firms, the private companies that own the pylons, cables and pipes supplying domestic users…”

On the recordJune 9, 2026
Cooper said energy network firms, the private companies that own the pylons, cables and pipes supplying domestic users, "operate as total monopolies" and her party believed the regulator should force them "to pay back" what she said were windfall profits.
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Daisy Cooper
Liberal Democrats
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bbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing energy network firms' profit practices.

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