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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Helen Corbett

Nationalising British Steel must be ‘last resort’ – Badenoch

Nationalising British Steel must be a “last resort”, Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has said as the Government reiterated it was keeping “all options on the table” after a meeting to reassure the industry.

British Steel has launched a consultation on the proposed closure of blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant and the Government has been talking to the company’s Chinese owner Jingye.

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