#Brexit has put £370m a year on #PriceOfPower from #EU since 2021, experts say

Trade body #EnergyUK also estimates total energy cost of leaving bloc could reach £10bn by end of decade
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/25/brexit-has-put-370m-a-year-on-price-of-power-from-eu-since-2021-experts-say
#ToryLegacy #BrexitBonus

#RollingStockFirm’s £80m dividend payout fuels calls for #UK #rail #nationalisation

#Unions describe #Porterbrook’s figures, despite downturn in wider rail industry’s revenues, as ‘shocking but unsurprising’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/14/porterbrook-rolling-stock-firm-dividend-uk-rail-nationalisation-calls
#ToryLegacy

' “the government must escape the serial mistakes of the past 45 years, of trying to shrink the state and promote a self-organising market”. This drive towards a smaller state funded by lower levels of #taxation, a #ConservativePolicy, has left the #UK in terrible condition.'

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/the-october-budget-can-rachel-reeves-escape-from-the-tories-fiscal-prison/
#ToryLegacy

Top-rated UK [#England] #WaterFirms ‘dumped 1,374 illegal spills into rivers’

Exclusive: #UnitedUtilities and #SevernTrent had four-star environment ranking but discharges breached permits, campaign group says
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/13/top-rated-uk-water-firms-dumped-1374-spills-into-rivers
#ToryLegacy #OfWat #ShittyOldEngland

Will the #UK ‘give up’ #Gibraltar next? In #Spain, we’re more worried about #Brexit’s absurdities

Ignore warnings of the Rock following the #ChagosIslands – new border checks are more of a threat to livelihoods in the territory and beyond
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/10/will-the-uk-give-up-gibraltar-next-in-spain-were-more-worried-about-brexits-absurdities
#ToryLegacy

#English #water system singled out for criticism by #UN special rapporteur

Prof #PedroArrojoAgudo says regulator #Ofwat ‘complacent’ about water firms putting their #shareholders before #public
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/09/english-water-system-singled-out-criticism-un-special-rapporteur
#ToryLegacy

‘‘It’s decimated’: #Rayner faces a battle to boost #Britain’s [#England's, #ItsDevolved] #SocialHousing

#Labour wants action. But rent caps, rising interest rates and restrictions on councils have hit the #AffordableHomes sector hard
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/06/its-decimated-rayner-faces-a-battle-to-boost-britains-social-housing
#ToryLegacy

Private firms ran almost all #CareHomes forced to shut for breaches in #England

Study finds more than 90% of facilities for children and 98% of those for adults that were closed down were #RunForProfit
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/oct/06/private-firms-ran-almost-all-care-homes-forced-to-shut-for-breaches-in-england
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