Labour Takes Over Scunthorpe Steel in Commons Snap Debate
But Business Secretary downplays prospect of full nationalisation and declines to extend emergency assistance to Port Talbot or Grangemouth
Jonathan Reynolds 12.4.25
LABOUR acted to save the last elements of primary steel production in Britain today by seizing control of the Scunthorpe plant from its private owners Jingye.
MPs were recalled to the Commons to rush through emergency legislation in a single day empowering ministers to act.
It meant the House sitting on a Saturday for the first time since 1982 and the outbreak of the Falklands War.
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