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12 February 2018updated 24 Jun 2021 12:26pm

Privatisation overseas is a waste of government aid money

It’s time to crack down on the Tories’ ideological obsession with outsourcing abroad as well as at home.

By Kate Osamor

Capita teeters on the brink. Carillion has collapsed. In the UK, tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of workers are at risk. The bubble has burst: it is the beginning of the end of the outsourcing party for profiteers in the UK.

So now it’s time to crack down on the ideological obsession with privatisation overseas.

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