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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Rhiannon James

New shadow Welsh secretary says Labour’s Port Talbot deal ‘identical’ to Tories’

Tata Steel in Port Talbot (George Thompson/PA) - (PA Wire)

Newly-appointed shadow Welsh secretary Mims Davies has described Labour’s Port Talbot steelworks deal as “identical” to the previous Tory government’s.

The Conservative former minister said the money for the deal “had been sitting there the whole time” and it was “ludicrous” of the Government to claim otherwise.

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