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The business secretary has declined to confirm whether the government has taken control of the Chinese -owned plant, the government has received enough raw materials over time to maintain the explosion furnaces in British steel.
Emergency legislation Through the parliament on Saturday To stop the owners, the war closed two blast furnaces in Skantorp.
Asked if they could guarantee the furnaces, Jonathan Rynolds said he would not comment on the “trade aspect of supply” but the occupation gave the “opportunity” to obtain coal.
The government said that the lives were selling raw materials, and at the same time the authorities took control.
Laura Quinsburg was asked several times whether he believed that he would be able to get coal supply before the current stock was over, Reynolds insisted that “I would not be involved” but the takeover was “necessary” to maintain steel production in the UK.
Talking about the program, Reynolds said the situation was “difficult and challenging”.
But Saturday’s emergency legislation enables the government to work for the blast furnaces. Once the explosion furnace is closed, it is incredibly difficult to resume production.
“If we had not acted, the blast furnace would end and the basic production of steel in the UK would end,” he said.
“If we had not acted, you would be asking that we support the thousands who have lost their jobs.”
Conservatives have criticized the government for not taking steps to save the plant and protect jobs soon.
Talking to the BBC, Tory Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith said “the government could see it before”.
He described the deal as “bothered nationalization” but argued that the conservatives supported the deal because “this is the worst option on the table”.
Reynolds said the government intervened after “it became clear” that the living explosions planned to close the furnaces, regardless of what financial support it had received from the government.
The government rejected the offer of assistance in the region of 500 million Million in the region, the government said instead demanded more than twice, with some guarantees that the blast furnace would be open.
In Commons on Saturday, Reynolds said that the lives were not talking to “good faith”, while on Sunday he suggested that he was not working rationally.
Reynolds told the program – Jengie jeopardized the UK’s ability to manufacture Virgin Steel – he added, “It cannot be sabotage, it can be ignored”.
The British Steel plant in Scantorp is the last UK plant, which is capable of manufacturing Virgin Steel, which has fewer defects and is used in new buildings and large construction projects like railways.
If the plant was to stop production, the UK would become the only member of the G7 group of leading economies without the ability to make it.
The government is looking for a buyer to capture British steel.
Earlier on Sunday, Reynolds told Sky News that he would not sell it to any other Chinese company.
He said: “I think we have become clear about what is the way in this sector where, in fact, we can promote and cooperate, and cleanly where we cannot. I personally will not bring a Chinese company to my steel sector.”
Reynolds told the BBC that he could not say what would be the cost of taxpayers from the occupation of British steel when the buyer would be found.
He argued that the company’s market value is “effectively zero” and taxpayers will have to “back” the loss of about $ 700,000 a day.
Asked about whether the 2019 sale was a fault of the Boris Johnson government, Griffith said that the conservatives have approved the “single agreement on the table” – and with the support of unions and local members.
Since then, “the world has changed” and China has become a less trusted partner.
Reform British leader Nigel Fariz has criticized conservatives for selling the “strategic industry to a foreign government”.
He told the BBC that like a large private company in China, there is no such “thing” and has questioned the stimulus of living to buy British steel.
Farez, whose party has discussed British Steel for a full national, said: “We need to fully think about the British industry.”
“We are going through an industrial massacre,” he added.
Speaking during a parliamentary debate on Saturday, Green MP Eli Chen said that steel is mandatory with “Green Industrial Change” – which includes building wind turbines, trains and tracks.
Gul Daudi Cooper, a spokesman for the Liberal Democrat Treasury, urged ministers to use “extraordinary legislation”.
