Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy noticeKwasi Kwarteng is the top business minister. A right-wing Brexiteer, he once co-authored a book that labelled British workers as “among the worst idlers in the world”. In the wake of last week’s Budget, he abandoned the Government’s industrial strategy – such as it was. Now, Britain’s newfound independence from EU rules about state intervention is being put to the test in a key basic industry: steel. 5,000 jobs are at stake in 11 plants, including Rotherham steelworks, ­Stocksbridge near Sheffield, Newport, Coventry, Hartlepool and an aluminium smelter in ­Scotland.

Source: Daily Mirror March 11, 2021 18:51 UTC