In the end, they drew back from the brink, just. EU leaders, notably Germany’s Angela Merkel, refused to back a proposal by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen this week to suspend exports of Covid vaccines from the bloc by companies deemed not to have honoured their contracts on deliveries to member states.
A government takeover of Thames Water would be an outrage
The new government’s hand is strong enough to resist nationalisation, which would stick over £18bn of debt onto the taxpayer.
