The state of British steel with Tata Steel and Scunthorpe
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Since nationalisation, British Steel workers still don't know if their jobs are safe
Last week, the Labour government hastily took control of British Steel. The blast furnaces will therefore continue to operate for the time being. What will happen next is still unclear. "Without British Steel, Scunthorpe will become a ghost town."
Relief and suspicion at Scunthorpe steelworks - 'They bought it to shut it down' - The Mirror
A week after Keir Starmer took control of the Scunthorpe steelworks after a unique Saturday sitting of MPs, we visited the plant to find out what the workers at the centre of the dramatic move really think
The Scunthorpe crisis and the rebirth of national capitalism
Perhaps the nominal irony was always unsustainable: British Steel Ltd, owned by a company headquartered in Beijing. Ultimately it fell to Keir Starmer to correct the discrepancy. Flanked by two large Union Flags, Starmer, with a gravitas befitting the death of a monarch or a currency devaluation, declared that “our economic and national security are all on the line” and that the government will be acting “to secure Britain’s future”. And, in cas…
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