Neil Coyle

Neil Coyle

Labour — Bermondsey and Old Southwark

Speaking in the House of Commons on 28 March 2025

Debate

Water Bill

Contribution

I am very grateful. The reason why I persist is that the issue of a citizens’ assembly has come up. My previous question was: how could a Government—any Government—bind the actions of a future democratically elected Government? A citizens’ assembly does not have the power to do that. I am intrigued; how can the Greens believe that a citizens’ assembly could bind a future Government, of any political persuasion, to not re-privatising our water industry?

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