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A 2020 poll shows that a majority (63%) of Americans support a nationalized healthcare system. [7] A re-nationalization occurs when state-owned assets are privatized and later nationalized again, often when a different political party or faction is in power. A re-nationalization process may also be called "reverse privatization".
1956 The Egyptian Government nationalised the Suez Canal, owned by the Suez Canal Company which was part owned by the British government. 1962 The Ceylon Government nationalised the assets of the partly British-owned Royal Dutch Shell company. 1975 The Sri Lanka Government nationalised the assets of the British-owned plantation companies.
Privatisation began in the late 1970s, and notable privatisations include the Central Electricity Generating Board, British Rail, and more recently Royal Mail. After the Hatfield rail crash accident, the British government decided to intervene and in 2002 renationalised Railtrack (which was responsible for the maintenance of railway tracks and ...
Negotiations between Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the government failed and in 1951 the oil industry was nationalized. As a result of Britain's boycott and the Abadan Crisis, Iranian production dropped to virtually zero. On British initiative the CIA overthrew Prime Minister of Iran Mosaddegh in Operation Ajax. Formally the nationalization ...
On 1 January 1948, the railways were nationalised and British Railways was created, under the overall management of the British Transport Commission, later the British Railways Board. Railways in Northern Ireland were nationalised in the 1940s under the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA).
The distinction between the meaning of the terms citizenship and nationality is not always clear in the English language and differs by country. Generally, nationality refers to a person's legal belonging to a sovereign state and is the common term used in international treaties when addressing members of a country, while citizenship usually means the set of rights and duties a person has in ...
This category includes articles on industries and companies that were nationalised by the government of the United Kingdom (but which were later re-privatised) and the legislation that brought them into state ownership.
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, [22] are the citizens of the United Kingdom, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies. [23] [24] [25] British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals.