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Portrait of the week: British Steel seized, army sent to Birmingham and slim told to stay home in Beijing

The Spectator
EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
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Parliament was recalled from its Easter recess to sit on a Saturday for the first time since the Falklands War of 1982 to pass a bill to take control of British Steel, which amounts to no more than the works at Scunthorpe owned by the Chinese company Jingye since 2020.

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