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Steel ‘needs public stake permanently’
Momentum calls on reticent Eagle to back progressive policy

LABOUR pressure group Momentum called yesterday for the party to commit to the permanent public ownership of the steel industry.

Momentum slammed the government’s “wilful inaction” which led to the current crisis, threatening 40,000 jobs in the industry and supply chain. 

But the group that grew from the campaign to elect Jeremy Corbyn as leader said that Labour needed to put forward a coherent and progressive remedy.

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