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‘If a bailout was good enough for bankers, why isn’t it good enough for us,’ steelworkers ask
Workers leave the steelworks plant in Scunthorpe following a shift change as owner British Steel is to go into official recievership after failing to secure funds for its future

LEADERS in the labour movement are urging the government to nationalise British Steel, as steelworkers ask: “if a bailout is good enough for bankers, why isn’t it good enough for us?”

Labour’s shadow business secretary Rebecca Long Bailey told the Tories to intervene after the company’s compulsory liquidation was announced this morning.

She added: “The Tories’ legacy will once again be industrial decline — whilst they endlessly squabble over the European Union.

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