Labour accused of double standards over steelworks in Wales and England
Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales
LABOUR has been accused of double standards after failing to save the steelworks at Port Talbot in south Wales despite doing so in Scunthorpe.
Tata Steel was allowed to shut its blast furnaces at Port Talbot in September with the loss of 2,800 jobs.
But Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government passed emergency legislation in a single day on Saturday to save British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in Lincolnshire.
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