the early 2000s to prevent the full-scale contracting out of
maintenance and work on the London Underground, which then-Chancellor
of the Exchequer and soon-to-be-former Prime Minister Gordon Brown
imposed on to the city beginning in 2003."
[...]
"One of the largest forays into re-privatization of a public transportation
entity in the West has come to an end, less than a third of the way into
what was supposed to be a thirty-year commitment."
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