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SERCO runs everything in Britain, and increasingly abroad, from school inspections to Yarl’s Wood via massive cleaning contracts and refugee housing.
The outsourcing giant also operates the Caledonian Sleeper between London and Scotland, despite its branding being more familiar on the prisoner transport vans I’d see every day when I lived across the road from a magistrates’ court.
Its boss clearly enjoys having this feather in his hat.
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