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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Clive Lewis

Listen to a grieving mother and have no doubts: water privatisation has been a lethal scandal

Julie Maughan, previously Preen – her daughter Heather died in 1999 after contracting E coli on a beach in Devon during a family holiday.
Julie Maughan, previously Preen – her daughter Heather died in 1999 after contracting E coli on a beach in Devon during a family holiday. Photograph: Ellie Smith/The Guardian

In more than a decade as an MP, I have attended hundreds of meetings in parliament. Most pass. Some linger. Few stay with you. But a recent event was very different.

We hosted the actors, the real-life people they portrayed and the production team behind the Channel 4 docudrama Dirty Business. It tells the story of campaigners and families who have spent years fighting not just privatised water companies, but a system that was meant to protect them – and has too often failed.

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