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15 times the Government missed warnings over British Steel
2025-04-18 16:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Ministers failed to take action despite more than a dozen warnings stretching back months over the future of Scunthorpe steelworks Ministers forced through legislation over the weekend to save the Scunthorpe steel plant in a last-minute dash to prevent a core part of the sector being lost for good.But the Governments decision to wrestle control of the site from its Chinese owners, Jingye, came despite repeated warnings from regional mayors and MPs stretching as far back as October. MPs voted through the emergency laws on Saturday, in what was only the sixth weekend sitting of Parliament since the Second World War, but already questions are being raised as to why the Government did not act sooner.The i Paper looks at all of the warnings that ministers did not heed in the wake of the decision to close the Port Talbot steelworks in Wales last autumn.1. October 2024: Tory Tees Valley Mayor Ben HouchenOn 5 October, Houchen raised the alarm that the Government risked abandoning the producti...
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