Thames Water lenders offer reassurance amid legal challenge on civil service sacking

Thames Water's lenders have moved to reassure the market over fresh financial support for the struggling utility, Sky News reported. The development comes as a separate political storm erupted after a top civil servant – the former Foreign Office boss – launched a legal challenge against Sir Keir Starmer over his dismissal. The sacking, described by the official as an unjust removal, has now entered the courts. While the financial reassurance for Thames Water may steady nerves among investors, the legal action against the prime minister threatens to deepen tensions between Downing Street and the Whitehall mandarinate.