British Steel is taken into public ownership to save UK supply
Keir Starmer with British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, last year. Photograph: Peter Byrne/APView image in fullscreenKeir Starmer with British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, last year. British Steel’s ageing blast furnaces must be replaced, and a decarbonisation plan to install much less polluting electric arc furnaces is likely to cost well over a billion pounds.Explore more on these topicsBritish SteelSteel industryManufacturing sectorYorkshireNationalisationKeir StarmernewsShareReuse this content
- ▪Keir Starmer with British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, last year.
- ▪Photograph: Peter Byrne/APView image in fullscreenKeir Starmer with British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, last year.
- ▪British Steel’s ageing blast furnaces must be replaced, and a decarbonisation plan to install much less polluting electric arc furnaces is likely to cost well over a billion pounds.Explore more on these topicsBritish SteelSteel industryManu
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Keir Starmer with British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, last year. Photograph: Peter Byrne/APView image in fullscreenKeir Starmer with British Steel workers in Appleby Village Hall, near Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, last year. Photograph: Peter Byrne/APBritish SteelBritish Steel is taken into public ownership to save UK supplyScunthorpe factory is expropriated from China’s Jingye and ministers will ask a valuer to assess compensationJasper JollyThu 16 Jul 2026 03.26 EDTLast modified on Thu 16 Jul 2026 03.29 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleBritish Steel has formally been taken into public ownership 15 months after the government stepped in to prevent the closure of its steelworks in Scunthorpe and the loss of 4,000 jobs.Keir Starmer on Thursday…
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