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By: Natascha Engel

Natascha Engel was MP from 2005 to 2017 and now runs Palace Yard, a think tank

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  • Nationalising water would turn off the investment taps

    Opinion

    Government has neither the money nor the capacity to run our water industry and nationalisation would be the surest way to stop investment in it. Only the private sector has deep enough pockets to fund that level of investment, says Natascha Engel People across Kent and Sussex have had to use their neighbour’s toilets and [...]

    Macquarie is to invest £1.2bn into Southern Water in a move that could prevent a breach of its regulatory license.
  • Spare a thought for MPs, they don’t have a chance of succeeding like FTSE execs

    natascha engel

    We're always telling politicians they could learn from business, but they don't have half of the advantages of being a C-suite boss, writes Natascha Engel

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