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Water bosses should be prosecuted for polluting waterways, Labour frontbencher says
Steve Reed speaks at the Labour Party conference in Brighton, September 27, 2021

LABOUR has called for water bosses to be made criminally liable for polluting Britain’s waterways.

Shadow environment secretary Steve Reed told the Commons today: “The environmental regulator has today condemned the disgusting state of our waterways caused by the Conservatives letting water companies pump them full of raw sewage.

“This has to stop. So will the government now back Labour’s plan and make water bosses personally criminally liable?”

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