Conservative response to the Prime Minister's announcement of nationalisation of British Steel

Andrew Griffith MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade, said:

“Steel is important but this Government has lurched from chaos to chaos with no credible long-term plan for Scunthorpe.  He sounds like a broken record.

“The taxpayer has already footed the bill for hundreds of millions in cash.  Now, a year after the Government's botched part-nationalisation, the Prime Minister wants taxpayers to spend even more and take on billions worth of China's decommissioning costs to try and save his job.

“This weak PM dithered over Chinese ownership: now he's too weak to come up with a long term plan for British steelmaking.”