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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Julia Kollewe

Thames Water creditors ‘will bid for company even if it is nationalised’

Thames Water van and worker
Thames Water is buckling under £17.6bn of debt it has run up in the decades since privatisation. Photograph: Richard Baker/In Pictures/Getty Images

Thames Water’s creditors are willing to pursue their bid for the debt-laden company even if the probable next prime minister, Andy Burnham, brings it into temporary nationalisation.

The group of 100 institutional investors, which hold about £14bn of Thames’s senior debt, are still discussing a £10bn rescue proposal for the struggling company with officials from the regulator Ofwat, and they have held meetings in recent days.

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