UNIONS urged ministers to address Britain’s high energy costs and ensure domestic steel is used on public infrastructure projects after British Steel was nationalised yesterday.

PM Sir Keir Starmer announced the steelworks, which employs about 2,700 people in Scunthorpe, was brought under public ownership to “protect the future of steel production in the UK.”

It was taken under operational control by the government in April last year after it emerged that its Chinese owner Jingye Group was preparing close its two blast furnaces.

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