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Nº 54 Thursday, 03 September 2026
Opinion

Private equity keeps picking off London-listed firms – and Westminster barely notices

Private equity keeps picking off London-listed firms – and Westminster barely notices
Sources: Nils Pratley

Bodycote is the latest FTSE 250 industrial company set to fall to an overseas bidder, despite the government’s talk of ‘reindustrialising’ The UK is in the business of “reindustrialising”, says the prime minister. If we are, an increasing portion of the activity will be under foreign ownership. Tuesday brought yet another overseas private equity swoop on a FTSE 250 industrial firm. This time it’s

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