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Water company fat cats are ‘making us pay for decades of criminal behaviour’
Labour's Clive Lewis, trade unionists and campaigners demand public ownership of water after Ofwat announces £86 hike in bills from April
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WATER COMPANY fat cats are being rewarded for decades of criminal behaviour, a Labour MP said today after the industry regulator announced an average £86 bill hike from April.

Clive Lewis said billpayers are paying for crooks as he called for water firms to be nationalised and Ofwat abolished. 

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