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Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds outlines the draft legislation to save Scunthorpe in the Commons today
LABOUR acted to save the last elements of primary steel production in Britain today by seizing control of the Scunthorpe plant from its private owners Jingye.
MPs were recalled to the Commons to rush through emergency legislation in a single day empowering ministers to act.
It meant the House sitting on a Saturday for the first time since 1982 and the outbreak of the Falklands War.
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
The historic heartland of anti-fascist resistance and mining militancy now faces a new battle — stopping Nigel Farage. ANDREW MURRAY meets ex-Labour MP Beth Winter and former Plaid leader Leanne Wood, the two socialists leading the resistance