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🗓️ 15 April 2025
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The government has taken control of one of the last steel-making plants in the UK, after its Chinese owners threatened to close it. Some ministers have accused China of sabotaging British Steel to force us to import from China. But is that what happened? Or, when it comes to steel-making, did this country long ago sabotage itself?
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0:31.8 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvine Rana. |
0:44.5 | When MPs are summoned to Parliament on a Saturday, you know it's serious. |
0:52.1 | On what should have been a sleepy spring weekend, |
0:56.1 | Westminster was suddenly a buzz, |
0:58.9 | with MPs taking selfies outside Parliament |
1:01.7 | just to prove they'd been there |
1:04.3 | for a rare and historic emergency session. |
1:11.9 | Parliament had been recalled in a matter of hours in middle of the Easter recess |
1:17.4 | to try and save one of the last steelmaking plants in the country, |
1:23.1 | as in a race against time, one of their two remaining furnaces was about to go out. |
1:30.8 | Attention suddenly focused on the plant in North Lincolnshire. |
1:38.4 | Skenthorpe's a very big site. |
1:40.1 | It's got about 40 kilometres of internal railway. |
1:42.8 | You could even take a rail tour around it. |
1:44.5 | There's a company that just runs it all locomotives in the weekend around the internal railway. |
1:49.5 | Traditional steel plants of which Scunthorpe has won are big industrial sites. |
1:55.4 | The kind of thing that you associate in your mind's eye when you think of an industrial landscape, |
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