The Briefing Room

Nationalisation - how would it work?


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At its annual conference in Liverpool this week, the Labour party set out plans to nationalise a large range of industries that previous governments had sold off. The industries it wants to bring back into public ownership include water, rail, energy and the Royal Mail. But how would Labour’s ideas work? And what would the process be for implementing them? David Aaronovitch and his guests discuss.

Contributors:

Chris Curtis, senior political researcher, YouGov
Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy and a Fellow in Economics at the University of Oxford
Dan Neidle, Partner, Clifford Chance
Dr Sarah Hendry, Senior Lecturer in law at University of Dundee
Karma Loveday, Editor, The Water Report

Producer: Neil Koenig

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