"What we won't be doing is some crackpot scheme that would involve many, many tens of billions of taxpayers' money nationalising a British business," Johnson told BBC radio.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Andy Bruce. Andrew MacAskill)
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said a pre-election promise by the opposition Labour Party to nationalise telecoms provider BT's fixed line network to provide free full-fibre broadband for all is a "crackpot scheme."
"What we won't be doing is some crackpot scheme that would involve many, many tens of billions of taxpayers' money nationalising a British business," Johnson told BBC radio.
(Reporting by Costas Pitas and Andy Bruce. Andrew MacAskill)
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