Starmer tells plant employees ‘you are the spine of British Steel’

Sir Keir Starmer has met plant employees close to Scunthorpe after an emergency invoice to avoid wasting British Steel handed its first parliamentary hurdle.

Sir Keir Starmer is close to Scunthorpe, the place he is assembly steelworkers.

"You are the people who have kept this going," he says."

"You and your colleagues for years have been the backbone of British Steel, and it’s really important that we recognise that."

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"And I felt it was really important today, having been in Parliament this morning, to come straight up here to see you face to face to have that discussion with you."

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