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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

Tone deaf utility bosses get usual reward for failure

A year ago Severn Trent boss Liv Garfield sent her fellow utility bosses a chirpy Friday night email.

In her self-described “sensitive” and “highly confidential” note, she suggested the other bosses – supposedly, remember, in deep competition with each other – gang up to fend off the threat of nationalisation from a new Labour government.

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