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Steelworkers welcome Labour Party promise to invest £3bn in industy
Workers from Tata's Port Talbot steelworks gather at College Green, in Westminster, London, following the announcement last week that Tata is planning to close blast furnaces at the country's biggest steel plant in South Wales, January 23, 2024

STEELWORKERS today welcomed a Labour Party promise to invest £3 billion in Britain’s steel industry in its first parliament.

Steelworkers’ union Community general secretary Roy Rickhuss said: “We welcome the announcement that Labour will secure the £3bn needed to greenify and rebuild our steel industry.

“Sir Keir Starmer contacted me to assure that it would be delivered within the first parliament of a Labour government.”

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