Bring water back into public hands
“So we’d fix this – ending the scandal of shareholder profit and bringing water back into public hands, so every penny we pay goes into making the service better.”
- Promised
Where it stands
The Green Party is not in government, so the card stays at Promised. In the same speech he said nearly a third of the typical water bill in England goes to shareholder returns and debt servicing, and called for an end to private ownership of water. He did not say how the companies would be brought into public hands, what it would cost or by when. He repeated the plan to nationalise water in his conference speech on 2 October 2026.
What has happened
- Mar 2026Zack Polanski pledges to bring water back into public hands in a speech to the New Economics Foundation, Promised
About the cost
No cost was given in the cited sources.
More detail
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