{"id":1181637,"date":"2026-09-02T02:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1181637\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T02:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:10:13","slug":"burnham-says-water-central-to-u-k-plan-for-public-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1181637\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnham says water central to U.K. plan for public control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the water industry \u201cstands as a leaking monument\u201d to what he sees as the failure of decades of privatization in Britain, signaling he\u2019s open to nationalizing the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during his first House of Commons appearance since taking power, Burnham said the water industry in England \u201callows wealth to be extracted and siphoned out\u201d and represented \u201ca country run in the private rather than the public interest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Burnham didn\u2019t mention Thames Water, which serves London and much of the surrounding region, the troubled company is seen as the government\u2019s leading target for more direct control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the water industry \u201cstands as a leaking monument\u201d to what he sees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1181638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8916,748,393,4884,8414,1144,712,15689,16,15,1764,6507],"class_list":["post-1181637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-labour","tag-northern-ireland","tag-scotland","tag-u-k","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117199019857509187","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}