The Tories have renationalised many of the train companies, and are currently toying with nationalising the General Practice (GP) service in the UK - which most of the public would not realise was private sector (albeit GPs have strict rules against private practice, unlike dentists).

There are some obvious reasons to want to renationalise critical infrastructure like water and power, particularly given the absolutely piss-poor job done by the private contractors. And in many areas - like the trains - the "private enterprises" running the services turn out to be commercial arms of other European public sector bodies anyway, and are not private sector in any meaningful sense.

I don't think this is Left vs Right any more. If the Tories want red-wall voters and broad appeal, they have to move a lot more than Labour needs to stay in the middle ground. Left vs Right does not capture the complexity of what's happening here.