Parliament recalled on Saturday for emergency vote to pass bill taking assets into public control

• Analysis: Government scrambles to save British Steel as firm faces crisis within crisis

Keir Starmer is stepping in to seize control of British Steel to stop its Chinese owner shutting the Scunthorpe plant in an unprecedented move that paves the way for likely nationalisation.

The prime minister was granted a recall of parliament on Saturday, with MPs set to debate emergency laws that will give the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, the power to direct the company.