MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds

Thames Water’s Coppermills water treatment works, east London. The company’s ‘16 million customers have largely lost faith in it’, said the chair of the environment, food and rural affairs committee. Thames Water’s Coppermills water treatment works, east London. The company’s ‘16 million customers have largely lost faith in it’, said the chair of the environment, food and rural affairs committee. Water MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company

Prefer the Guardian on Google Andy Burnham is under further pressure to take control of ailing Thames Water from a cross-party group of MPs who are calling for ministers to break off talks with the US hedge funds who are effectively running the company.