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The April Fool’s joke that’s just not funny

THE government is doing “everything that is practicable and possible” to protect Britain’s steel industry.

This was the line trotted out ad nauseam yesterday by Chancellor George Osborne, Business Secretary Sajid Javid and other Tory mouthpieces.

Now, one would have thought that some canny adviser might have spotted the idiocy of coming out with what is undoubtedly the biggest lie of the year so far on April Fool’s Day.

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