{"id":696017,"date":"2026-07-17T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:05:15","slug":"scunthorpe-reacts-to-decision-to-nationalise-british-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/696017\/","title":{"rendered":"Scunthorpe reacts to decision to nationalise British Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many in this Lincolnshire town welcome what they perceive to be a lifeline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a mucky place and hard work,&#8221; says Phil. &#8220;But those works have given a lot of people around here a good living over many, many years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg17g39x41o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the UK government took control<\/a> of British Steel&#8217;s operations in Scunthorpe, though it was still owned by China&#8217;s Jingye Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nationalisation gives the government the power and freedom to decide on the future of the plant, while keeping its blast furnaces going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Phil, though pleased with the decision, is guarded. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how it&#8217;s going to remain profitable when it&#8217;s competing against cheaper, foreign steel,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The industry is nothing like it was. Those days are gone. In the early 1970s, 22,000 people were employed in the works. Now, it&#8217;s less than 3,000, although plenty of others in the supply chain, shops and so on rely on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many in this Lincolnshire town welcome what they perceive to be a lifeline. &#8220;It&#8217;s a mucky place and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-696017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}