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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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UK Parliament meets in emergency Saturday session to approve rescue of British Steel

Britain Steel - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

U.K. lawmakers returned to Parliament from their Easter break on Saturday to approve an emergency rescue of the country's last remaining factory that makes steel directly from raw materials.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer summoned lawmakers for the highly unusual Saturday sitting to debate a bill aimed at blocking British Steel's Chinese owners, Jingye Group, from closing blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant in the north of England.

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