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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Ben Glaze

Steel campaigners celebrate plan to extend measures to protect UK industry

Steel campaigners were celebrating today after measures to protect the UK industry looked set to be extended.

Plans to maintain quotas and tariffs on some imports - which critics claim breach World Trade Organisation rules - contributed to Boris Johnson ’s ethics adviser Lord Geidt quitting last week.

But today the Government confirmed it wanted to extend for another two years measures on 15 steel products to protect domestic steelmakers.

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