Ted Newson: Burnham won’t bring back British industry with more carbon taxes
Ted Newson is a Researcher at the Global Warming Policy Foundation On July 16th, the government made the decision to take British Steel into public ownership. Given the strategic importance of domestic steel manufacture, and the fact that virgin steel production here has become commercially unviable, this looks like the only option left. In March of this year, the government was found to have been spending £1.3 million a day to prop up our final domestic producer of virgin steel – Scunthorpe steelworks.
- ▪Ted Newson is a Researcher at the Global Warming Policy Foundation On July 16th, the government made the decision to take British Steel into public ownership.
- ▪Given the strategic importance of domestic steel manufacture, and the fact that virgin steel production here has become commercially unviable, this looks like the only option left.
- ▪In March of this year, the government was found to have been spending £1.3 million a day to prop up our final domestic producer of virgin steel – Scunthorpe steelworks.
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Ted Newson is a Researcher at the Global Warming Policy Foundation On July 16th, the government made the decision to take British Steel into public ownership. Given the strategic importance of domestic steel manufacture, and the fact that virgin steel production here has become commercially unviable, this looks like the only option left. In March of this year, the government was found to have been spending £1.3 million a day to prop up our final domestic producer of virgin steel – Scunthorpe steelworks. Rather than focusing on nationalisation, we should focus on why steel manufacture was unprofitable in the first place, and how we ensure it can be privatised again when commercially viable. Unfortunately, the government does not think in this way.
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