Lucy Powell – 2021 Comments on Steel Production

The comments made by Lucy Powell, the Shadow Minister for Business, on 1 April 2021.

It’s absolutely crucial we protect our country’s steel industry, which provides highly-skilled jobs across the country and equips us to build critical infrastructure like railways, hospitals and schools.

But a decade of Conservative indifference has seen steelmaking production plummet in a huge hit to our economy, risking jobs and livelihoods, whilst other countries across Europe have backed their steel industries to grow.

Labour would stand up for our steelmakers with a proper industrial strategy, supporting the industry to decarbonise, and putting in place stronger targets to buy British steel.

And we would step up, not stand back, and protect jobs and plants at Liberty Steel.