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Port Talbot Crisis - Plaid Move

January 22, 2024

Port Talbot Crisis - Plaid Move
 
Plaid Cymru has called on the UK government to consider nationalisation of the Tata steel plant in Port Talbot.
 
Swansea Plaid spokesman Dr Gwyn Williams said that the loss of thousands of jobs at the plant threatened to plunge the entire regional economy into prolonged recession.
 
"The UK government needs to adopt a more radical approach, including if necessary temporary nationalisation to provide a phased transition to greener methods of steel production", Dr Williams said.
 
UK Ministers seriously considered this approach in 2016 and now need to think the unthinkable to continue steel production at home, he said in a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.