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Tories urge Welsh Government to reconsider steel requirement

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Tories urge Welsh Government to reconsider steel requirement

Tories urge Welsh Government to reconsider steel requirement

A Tory minister has urged the Welsh Government to reconsider its requirements around steel as the UK Government races to avert the shutdown of Britain's last primary steelmaking plant.

Shadow business minister Dame Harriett Baldwin said it's a "critical part of our national infrastructure" that the Scunthorpe plant is "kept going".

Report by Kennedyl.

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