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LABOUR shadow chancellor John McDonnell branded Tory plans to support the steel industry “bollocks” yesterday after ministers finally secured an emergency meeting with Eurocrats on the subject.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn spent yesterday meeting steelworkers at Tata’s Scunthorpe works, where he pledged to square up to the World Trade Organisation and China to secure a future for devastated workers.
Tata blamed cheap imports when it announced 1,200 redundancies last week — the majority of which will affect workers at the Scunthorpe plant.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
PAWEL WARGAN juxtaposes the thriving industrial centre Jiayuguan in China, with the prevailing images of decaying East European great industrial cities