Green deputy leader calls water system a “disaster”
Rachel Millward, the Green Party’s deputy leader, has described the water system as a “disaster,” according to BBC Politics. She said her party would nationalise water companies, arguing that the policy would reverse what she characterised as years of “radical underinvestment.”
Rachel Millward, the Green Party’s deputy leader, has called the water system a “disaster,” according to BBC Politics.
Millward said the Green Party would nationalise water companies. The source did not provide further details about how the proposed policy would be implemented.
She linked the proposal to what she described as years of “radical underinvestment.” The statement was presented as the party’s approach to reversing that condition.
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