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Campaigners demand full nationalisation of British Steel after government seizes control of Scunthorpe plant
A general view of British Steel in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. MPs have approved plans to save British Steel's Scunthorpe blast furnaces after an extraordinary sitting of the Commons on Saturday. Emergency legislation giving the Government the power to inst

LABOUR has been urged to catch up with public support for nationalising services “just as strategically important” as British Steel.

Campaigners and unions have continued to call for the full nationalisation of the company after the government passed an emergency law on Saturday to seize control of its Scunthorpe plant.

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