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Labour proposes BT public ownership plan

BT would be partly taken back into public ownership under Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to nationalise the UK’s broadband network.

By Dan Peters, Paul Marinko | 15 November 2019

BT would be partly taken back into public ownership under Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's plan to nationalise the UK's broadband network.

The plan to provide free internet access for every home in the country would bring Openreach, which runs the UK's broadband network, into public ownership.

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