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27: Feargal Sharkey: Teenage Kicks, Bobby Sands, and saving our rivers

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Importance of Regulators

Alistair Campbell: I'm going to give you the wherewithal for a section 18 of the Water Industries Act 1991, we ever drafted it, predicted this very situation. And it was a very insightful judgment. Theresa Coffey, the secretary of state, could fix most of this this afternoon with nothing more than the stroke of a pen. She's had that power since the day she took off the question that actually becomes by herSince she actually used that power and that authority. OK, well Theresa, if you're listening, you can come on and explain any point you like and we might even get furgal back from there. So you have government control without government ownership?

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