PUBLIC ownership is not just a “political decision” but an “economic necessity,” John McDonnell will stress today in a speech on alternative ownership models.
The shadow chancellor will outline Labour’s plans to put democratically owned and managed public services “irreversibly in the hands of workers” so they can “never again be taken away.”
Mr McDonnell will open Labour’s Alternative Models of Ownership conference in London by calling for a greater role for workers and the public in economic decision-making under new forms of democratic ownership.
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