Steel nationalisation talks unfair on Wales, says Plaid

by Landon

Plaid Cymru has accused the UK government of not fighting equally for Welsh communities after it revealed it was considering nationalising British Steel.

The party has stepped up its call for nationalisation of the Port Talbot steel plant, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves put the option on the table for British Steel's Scunthorpe site.

"If it's good enough for Scunthorpe, why wasn't it good enough for Port Talbot?" said Plaid's economy spokesman, Luke Fletcher MS.

Tata Steel's blast furnaces at Port Talbot were closed six months ago, with 2,800 jobs lost, after an agreement with the UK government was reached which saw it commit £500m to help the company move to greener forms of steelmaking.

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