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Pa Political Staff

Reynolds says Chinese firms would be viewed ‘in different way’ over steel bids

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds speaks as coking coal is unloaded at Immingham Port, northern England, as he visits the site in North East Lincolnshire to view raw materials destined for British Steel at Scunthorpe, being off-loaded (Darren Staples/PA) - (PA Wire)

The Business Secretary did not rule out Chinese firms being involved in the British steel industry in the future, after the breakdown in talks with Jingye over the Scunthorpe plant.

Jonathan Reynolds suggested that bids from the country would be looked at in “a different way”  to those from other nations, but said that the dispute over the North Lincolnshire site was because of “one specific company”.

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