Great Britain compensates for the control of an agitated stew. Here is why.

London – The British government rushes to save the last steel site in the country’s functional high stove – and 3,000 jobs in industrial labor Heartlands.

The legislators will debate the emergency legislation on Saturday which would give the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, the power to maintain the high stoves while the government is trying to find a buyer to co-invest in the SI acided.

The dramatic intervention – interrupting the recess of Easter of Parliament – follows a tense dead end with the Chinese owner Jingye, the parent company of British Steel.

He had threatened to close his operations in Scantunt, an industrial city in the north of English, resisting a site storage offer with the raw materials necessary to keep the site – the only source of virgin steel in Great Britain – being executed. Jingye says that the two stove highs are “more financially sustainable” and cited the six -digit daily financial losses by keeping them open.

A Downing Street Declaration Friday afternoon said that the steel industry bill (special measures) – which should be precipitated by Parliament in a single day of emergency session – will give the government “the power to direct steel companies in England, which we will use to protect the Scantunta site”.

N ° 10 added: “It allows the British government to preserve capacities and to ensure public security. It also guarantees that all the options remain viable for the future of the factory and the means of subsistence it supports. ”

Indeed, the government intervenes to maintain the race at the Scanthorpe factory, and clearly showing that it will buy the raw materials it needs to do it. This does not mean that the government nationalized the company, although it is still a possible result, and the one that is pushed by the political opponents of labor – including Nigel Farage.

The Trump postman

Ministers were already under pressure to protect the sector after US President Donald Trump imposed a 25% levy for steel imports. The takeover of the site will be considered a sign that the United Kingdom intensifies to protect its workers after Prime Minister Keir Starmer described the Trump trade war as marking the end of the era of globalization, and has promised to demonstrate the value of the active government.

But given the Chinese property of the site, the move could also play well with the White House.

The United States has not hidden its antagonism towards China, and the first investment policy in America of Trump explicitly warns companies to no longer get closer to Beijing.

“There is no doubt that bringing British Steel to British Steel into Chinese property will be favorably received by the Trump administration, in particular because the United Kingdom manufactures several steel components for the American defense industry,” said Sophia Gaston, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) UK Foreign Policy Gaston.

The ministers insist that the agreement is not linked to pricing negotiations, but this could give the United Kingdom a stronger argument to say that it should be exempt from the American samples, said Sam Hogg, founder of British Diplomacy Tracker.

“Trump spoke of rekindling the American shipbuilding sector,” he said. “British Steel produces steel that could be used in this renewal. Obviously, there are prices in place at the moment, but in the context of this negotiation strategy, you could say that we have nationalized, we want to export you to rebuild your fleets, which is a clear win-win for the two of us.”

Although British Steel does not directly provide defense (such as ships and aerospace), it is essential for wider infrastructure and resilience, including hangars for planes and buildings on military bases.

En Marche reform

With the local elections that approached the approach, an embedded reform of the United Kingdom – led by Nigel Farage – seized the time to paint as the Party of Blue Colai Cities, calling for the complete nationalization of the company.

Farage and his reform that the British deputy Richard Tice went down to the site of Sucunte besieged this week, wearing combinations of black boilers and taking images with the steel workers – a meticulously choreographed solidarity show to undermine the traditional work lawn, and a surprising game for a party of the right.

“The steel industry of the United Kingdom is broken. Reform UK will repair it, “said Farage.

The local elections which were to take place on May 1, Farage and Tice were joined by Andrea Jenkyns, candidate of the party to the mayor of Grand Lincolnshire.

“The campaign resonates enormously,” Tice in Politico told. “They are so grateful that I got up in the municipalities (to say) that we must adopt it on public property. They have despaired the conservatives for years, they have despaired about work, and they are their livelihood. ”

Reform UK makes scunning a key element in their campaign. The party had established its own plan to “save” British steel, in particular the nationalization of Jingye’s activities, the investment of 200 million pounds sterling to renovate two high stoves and create a “long -term strategic business plan”.

While the Labor Party is often considered as the National Property Party, Tice said: “There is a certain irony in businessmen of the law of politics to tell the socialists that you must nationalize this strategically important national asset.”

Disillusioned voters could change their vote. Jobs are at stake – just like votes in Labor seats cannot afford to lose.

“I know how important the steel is. This is part of the history of our country,” said Starmer in a television statement on Friday evening.

Emilio Casalicchio contributed to this report.

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