Boris – Crazy about UK Steel

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Photo by Christian Diokno on Pexels.com Boris Johnson, has said that steel ‘is a very important national asset’ and ‘It would be crazy if we were not to use this post Brexit moment to use the flexibility we have to buy British Steel’. There are nearly 5,000 people employed in the UK steel industry. This … Continue reading Boris – Crazy about UK Steel

The Time to Transform UK Steel?

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UK steel has been struggling for years, often in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: financial distress, change of ownership, job redundancies and plant closures. This is an industry that in 1971 employed 320,000 but now employs just 15,000. The problems of the UK steel market are often blamed on competition from the Chinese, … Continue reading The Time to Transform UK Steel?