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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil and Jonathan Prynn

Keir Starmer backs Environment Secretary Steve Reed after Feargal Sharkey urges him to quit over water scandal

Feargal Sharkey has called on Environment Secretary Steve Reed to resign over the litany of failures in the water industry.

The water campaigner said a major report into the industry did not go far enough in tackling “corporate greed” and continuing “exploitation and abuse of consumers, bill payers and the environment”.

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