Hamish McRae: For sale: everything in Britain
Foreigners buy our costliest houses, while Russians don't just buy Chelsea homes - they buy the clubs
Published: 02 November 2005
Britain, for better or worse, is the country where everything is for sale - as events over the past few days have again made clear.
Yesterday the path was cleared by the Competition Commission for bids to be put in for the London Stock Exchange - though with some conditions that may put bidders off. A day earlier the Spanish telephone group agreed to buy O2, the mobile phone operator founded by British Telecom, leaving Vodafone the only British-owned mobile service in the UK.
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