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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rachael Burford

Feargal Sharkey airs doubts on tougher water firm regulation: 'No boss will go to prison'

Singer-turned-environmental campaigner Feargal Sharkey today expressed his doubts about plans to reform water services, saying he could not see company executives ever being jailed for sewage dumping under proposed new laws.

The activist and former Undertones frontman, who campaigned for Labour in the run-up to the general election, said the new Government should force regulators to “go out and apply the law” rather than creating new legislation.

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