British Steel: Parliament sits for historic emergency session as Starmer says ‘national security’ on the line – UK Times

Parliament will be recalled for a rare weekend sitting on Saturday, after Sir Keir Starmer unveiled an emergency plan to take control of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant.

MPs will vote on emergency legislation aimed at blocking the firm’s Chinese owners, Jingye, from closing blast furnaces at the Lincolnshire site after the prime minister warned the future of the company “hangs in the balance”.

After crunch talks with Jingye, officials in the Department for Business and Trade believed its intention was to stop the supply of raw materials needed to keep the blast furnaces operating.

If the furnaces are stopped, it is extremely difficult and costly to them back online.