Government ‘confident’ it has supplies to keep British Steel blast furnaces lit

The British Steel works in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Government is “confident” it will secure the supply of materials needed to keep the blast furnaces burning at British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, Downing Street has said.

No 10 insisted the plant would remain in use, as staff at the company and civil servants work to prevent the permanent shutdown of Britain’s last steel-making plant.