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Evening Standard
Holly Williams

Thames Water’s £10 billion creditor rescue deal should be ditched, say MPs

Thames Water’s rescue deal by lenders should be rejected and the Government should take it back into public control after the stricken supplier has been left in a damaging ‘doom loop’, according to an influential group of MPs (Andrew Matthews/PA) - (PA Archive)

Thames Water’s rescue deal by lenders should be rejected and the Government should take it back into public control after the stricken supplier has been left in a damaging “doom loop”, according to an influential group of MPs.

A report by the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Efra) Committee said the £10 billion takeover plans by a consortium of over 100 creditors in Thames Water does not have “the interests of the public, the company or the environment at heart”.

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