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Campaigners invite environmental secretary to football to ask him to ‘play fair’ on water crisis
We Own It campaigners outside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs with a giant match-day ticket, May 7, 2025

ACTIVISTS have sought to influence Environment Secretary Steve Reed by copying tactics deployed by water companies: inviting him to the football.

In a stunt supported by utility campaign group We Own It, constituent Lois Davis invited Mr Reed, her MP, to see this season’s final Crystal Palace home game in a bid to get him to “play fair” on privatised water.

Arriving at Defra on Tuesday, they carried a giant match-day ticket inviting the minister to the game to discuss how to fix the privatised water crisis.

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