The privatisation of water hasn't worked. It's not created competition. What you've seen is bills going up and up and up over years and years and years. Investment not being made... and then now these companies are in real distress.
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I think I've called it in the past egregious and I'm not going to change my opinion on that just because I'm now the secretary of state.
It created more of a culture of not feeling that you could speak out on things for fear of giving you a black mark against your name.
I'm pleased that actually what it looks like is we're probably going to have just the one candidate in Andy Burnham.
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