The steel industry is the lifeblood of communities across Wales, but whilst other countries push ahead with investing in clean steel projects, the Tories are holding our industries back.

We are now over halfway through TATA Steel’s 45-day redundancy consultation period which could see up to 3000 steel jobs lost, almost all of them in Port Talbot. We cannot let this happen. Urgent action must be taken to secure jobs and protect our sovereign steel making capability for economic and national security reasons too.

No irreversible decisions should be taken before a general election. Working in lockstep with a Welsh Labour government, the next UK Labour government will invest £3billion to ensure that the transition to green steel comes with jobs in Wales.

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