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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Jasper Jolly

Thames Water ‘putting gun to head’ of court over £3bn debt, investors claim

Labour MP John McDonnell joins campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice urging the court to block the Thames Water application for a £3bn bailout
Labour MP John McDonnell joins campaigners outside the Royal Courts of Justice urging the court to block the Thames Water application for a £3bn bailout. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

A group of investors has accused Thames Water of putting “a gun to the head” of London’s high court by threatening to go into temporary nationalisation if it does not receive approval for a rival £3bn debt offer.

The court heard the first day of arguments deciding between two rival plans to lend emergency cash to Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water company. Thames provides water and sewerage services to nearly a quarter of the UK population in London and south-east England.

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