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Utilities are public services – and should not be run as businesses | Letters

Readers respond to an article by Will Hutton and Andy Haldane suggesting that they could be run for the public benefitWill Hutton and Andy Haldane advocate “turning [utilities] into public-benefit companies with a primary, constitutional objective of delivering high-quality services, with profitability subordinate to that broader aim” (Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield.…

Readers respond to an article by Will Hutton and Andy Haldane suggesting that they could be run for the public benefitWill Hutton and Andy Haldane advocate “turning [utilities] into public-benefit companies with a primary, constitutional objective of delivering high-quality services, with profitability subordinate to that broader aim” (Andy Burnham talks about ‘public control’ of the utilities but it’s a minefield.…

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