Jessica Morden Jessica Morden - Labour MP for Newport East, Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Commons and PPS to Keir Starmer

Extending safeguards on steel is of course welcome news here in Newport East, but the government needs to go further – much further – to make the UK the best place in the world to make steel. It’s time they worked with BEIS and partners to bring forward a green steel deal to protect jobs and the steel industry.
Yesterday, I called on the government to do just this.