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  • 6 months ago
One of the UK's biggest steelworks has been taken over by the government after it collapsed into administration, putting thousands of jobs at risk. Reacting to the news, Conservative MP Katie Lam said it is "impossible to have an industrial base" in the UK "when energy prices are this high." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We have to retain some steelmaking capability if we are going to have a credible defence,
00:07which comes to a much wider question of our industrial base and what it would mean
00:13if the country were meaningfully to need to arm itself.
00:17It is effectively impossible to be able to defend yourself in what is an ever more dangerous world
00:25if you don't have a proper industrial base.
00:26And it is very difficult and commercially effectively impossible to have a proper industrial base
00:33when our energy price is this high.
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