The passed emergency law to force the steel companies for the loss to continue working | British steel

The emergency legislation that allows the government to instruct companies to keep the steel operations open in England or face criminal penalties for their managers, were approved yesterday during an extraordinary session of Parliament.

The parliamentarians and peers took off in Westminster for a rare Saturday sitting after Prime Minister Keir Starmer and a small team of ministers of the cabinet decided on Friday morning that special powers were needed for the commercial secretary Jonathan Reynolds to prevent the imminent collapse of the British Steel Steelworks scarves, with the furnaces that come outand the loss of thousands of jobs.

The call of Parliament from his Easter break, only the sixth Saturday sitting by the Second World War, was ordered after the negotiations with the Chinese owners of British Steel, Jingye, seemed to break.

Opening the debate on Saturday, Reynolds said that the government was in negotiations with Jingye since he climbed power last July and had offered “substantial” support. More recently, Labor had offered to buy the raw materials necessary for the Blast Furnaces, the latest primary structures for the production of virgin steel in the United Kingdom, but this had been satisfied with a against jingye offer that asked for “excessive quantity” of support.

Reynolds continued: “In the last few days, it has become clear that Jingye’s intention was to refuse to buy sufficient raw materials to make the Blast Furnaces work; in fact, their intention was to cancel and refuse to pay existing orders. The company would therefore have had irrevocably and unilaterally closed the primary steel of the British steel.

“We could not, we will not do it and we will never remain lazily while the heat is part of the remaining altiforni of the United Kingdom without any planning, no fair trial or any respect for the consequences. And that’s why I needed colleagues here today. “

Previously, Siderurg Workers of Scunthorpe blocked a group of jingye managers who were trying to access parts of the plant yesterday morning. The Humberside police confirmed that he had attended the site and no arrests were made.

Starmer headed to Lincolnshire to meet the workers of the steelurgicals near Schunthorpe shortly after the account has passed the Chamber of Municipalities not opposed, telling them: “Six people who continued.

“And I heard that it was really important today, having been in Parliament this morning, coming directly here to see you face to face to have that discussion with you. This should not be a remote thing that is happening in Westminster, in Parliament, it should be something that lives and breathes. It is your job, your lives, your communities.”

Some conservatives also spoke in favor of the account. Write for the Observer Online, Tory’s parliamentarian for Brigg and Imingham, Martin Vickers, whose electoral college includes parts of the works of Scunthorpe, said he and his components would support the utmost nationalization even if his party has always opposed this policy.

“The government must nationalize the industry, to give it space to breathe, to attract new investments in the private sector and to maintain the work of those thousands of people. What we have felt by the Secretary of State means that they are getting closer to the nationalization on a large scale and if this is proposed in the end, they will have full support of the local community and, as their representative, they can consider my support.”

The commercial secretary of the shadow Andrew Griffith said that the government was looking for a “white check”, while Tory Kemi Badenoch’s leader said that the Labor had “mistreated” an agreement that had negotiated with British Steel while the commercial secretary. Badenoch was not, however, unable to provide details of such an agreement, saying that negotiated were still underway when the elections of last year were called, but adding it “would have been better” of the Reynolds plan.

The legislation stops in short nationalization of the British steel and ministers remain hopes of being able to guarantee private investments to save the system. But currently there is no private company willing to invest in the meaning of the company, as Reynolds admitted, which public property has remained the “probable option”.

Richard Tice, deputy leader of reform UK – who hopes to win the competition for the first mayor of Lincolnshire on May 1st – urged the government to “show your cojones” and go beyond nationalizing the British steel “This weekend”.

Daisy Cooper, spokesman for the liberal democratic treasure, said that remembering that Parliament was “absolutely the right thing to do”. But the ministers were criticized for acting to save the SCUNTHORPE system not to have done the same when the Tata Steelworks in Port Talbot were threatened to close last year. David Chadwick, a spokesman for the liberal Democrat, said that workers in South Wales “will ask themselves how this unjust situation has ever been allowed”. The Minister of Industry Sarah Jones said that the different approach is due to the desire to invest in Port Talbot and the changing global circumstances that have made it necessary to protect the main production capacity of the United Kingdom steel.

Sangeeth Selvaraju, politician at the Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics, and an expert in the steel industry said to Observer That nationalization, “although politically appropriate, is not a long -term solution”.

He said: “The explosions in the United Kingdom made losses for the best part of a decade and was economically not practicable due to the competition of the Chinese and Indian altifornians, together with the increase in energy costs in the United Kingdom”.

TUC Secretary General Paul Nowak welcomed the bill but urged the government to go further.

He said: “Today’s announcement is the first step to ensure that we can modernize and decarbonize steel in this country, reducing our dependence on foreign imports and ensuring that they remain competitive on the global scene.

“But the government should not stop here. We must guarantee that British steel is used in British infrastructure projects to increase local economies up and down the country.

“This is how Steelworkers’ works protect during the transition and put the UK with a solid base for the future for steel.”