UNITE has launched a campaign demanding politicians from all parties take action to halt the decline in the UK’s steel industry.

The campaign is coupled with the union’s own plan to save the steel industry — the Workers’ Plan for Steel.

In the steel towns of Scunthorpe, Middlesborough and Sheffield, the union has unveiled billboards picturing PM Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer with the question: “Whose side are they on?”