MPs summoned to debate emergency law to save British Steel

MPs are set to vote on whether to grant the government control of British Steel as emergency legislation, paving the way for nationalisation, comes before parliament.

Both the Commons and the Lords will break from Easter recess for a highly unusual Saturday sitting to debate a bill aimed at blocking the company's Chinese owners, Jingye, from closing blast furnaces at its Scunthorpe plant.

Sir Keir Starmer has said the future of the company's Scunthorpe plant - which employs about 3,500 people - "hangs in the balance" after its owner said the cost of running it was unsustainable.

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