MPs summoned to debate emergency legislation to ‘protect’ British Steel

Parliament is being recalled to discuss the future of British Steel in Scunthorpe, Sky News understands.

MPs are being summoned back from Easter recess to Westminster, and will sit from 11am on Saturday, according to Sky sources.

The news comes as the government has been actively considering nationalising British Steel after Jingye, its owner in Scunthorpe, cancelled future orders for the iron ore, coal and other raw materials needed to keep the furnaces running.

That led to fears the Scunthorpe plant, the last blast furnaces left operating in Britain, could be forced to close as early as next month.

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