nationalisation Articles

We need an approach that places the user at the fore of all decisions on who should provide a service, argues Margaret Hodge MP – and that starts we these four reforms The collapse of Carillion will impact on service users, workers and the taxpayer. The government...

Progressive politics should be looking to the future, not trying to nationalise the private sector The Labour party has been having a row about the role of the state, markets, and the profit motive since Queen Victoria was on the throne. Early radicals and socialists...

We need to talk about profit, believes Mary Wimbury Profit: good or bad? Sometimes it seems that as a party we do not know. Too often I hear people say disparagingly ‘oh, they are only in it for the profit’ or dismissively ‘they are in the for-profit sector’. It is as...

For too long Labour has championed rail renationalisation without explaining how it will solve the problems that the railways face, writes James Wood Rail renationalisation has for a long time been an ideological comfort blanket for the Labour party. The public do...