Source: spiked
by Fraser Myers
“In a rare Saturday sitting of parliament, MPs voted this weekend to allow the UK government to assume operational control of British Steel. The emergency legislation will be used to block the firm’s Chinese owner, Jingye, from closing down its two blast furnaces in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. Full nationalisation is likely on the way. There is no doubt that government intervention was necessary to prevent the plant’s closure. … This weekend’s emergency legislation has certainly bought the steelworks some time, but UK PM Keir Starmer has some serious brass neck to claim that he has ‘saved’ British steelmaking. On the contrary, his government is committed to the very policies that have made steelmaking and other heavy industries unviable in the UK.” (04/14/25)
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/14/labour-will-bury-british-steel-not-save-it/