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Nationalisation, preservation or managed decline… 
…these are the choices facing UK and Welsh governments in the fight to save Welsh steel, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
a steel worker wearing a badge on his jacket outside the UK's largest steel works in Port Talbot, South Wales

WE NEED action on the steel industry, we need it now, and while the UK and Welsh governments are proving too tentative to rock the boat, Tata is capsizing it.

In January, Tata rejected the multi-union Syndex plan, citing concerns about the additional costs and expressing doubts — which haven’t been given the scrutiny they deserve — about the viability of keeping the existing plant operational while constructing new facilities alongside it. 

Moreover, despite meetings with various politicians, including shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds MP and Wales’s First Minister Vaughan Gething MS, Tata’s position is unchanged.

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