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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Kiran Stacey Political correspondent

Tata would ‘push on with Port Talbot job losses even with Labour subsidy’

A steelworker at a blast furnace in Port Talbot
Tata is planning up to 2,800 redundancies as it closes blast furnaces and replaces them with an electric one. Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images

Tata Steel would push ahead with thousands of job losses at its Port Talbot site even with hundreds of millions of pounds of subsidies being promised by Labour, sources close to the company have said.

People familiar with the company’s plans say the money being promised by Labour if it wins the election would not prevent wide-scale job losses at the site, where Tata says it is losing £1m a day.

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