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Starmer visits Wales amid steel job fears
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer with First Minister of Wales Vaughan Gething (right) and local parliamentary candidate for Carmarthenshire, Martha O'Neil, during a visit to the West Regwm Farm Events Venue in Whitland, Carmarthenshire, while on the General Election campaign trail, July 3, 2024

PREMIER Sir Keir Starmer concluded his whistle-stop tour of the devolved governments of the United Kingdom with talks in Cardiff on the future of the Port Talbot steel plant.

Sir Keir met Welsh First Minister Vaughan Gething at the Senedd as the Tata-owned plant prepares to shed thousands of jobs. 

Labour has already committed to talks with the company to try and save jobs.

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