Responding to Labour’s Secretary of State for Business, Jonathan Reynolds’ comments on BBC Radio Wales, Samuel Kurtz MS, Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for Economy and Energy said
“The Business Secretary is confirming what we already knew; that Tata are unmoveable in their desire to shut the blast furnaces and that Labour had no real plan to help keep them open.
“It must be an absolute priority for both the UK and Welsh governments to minimise the job losses, secure steelmaking and protect the supply chain and downstream industries. Because the UK Labour government are quickly finding out how much more difficult it is to govern, rather than oppose.
“The Welsh Conservative’s will support any deal that protects steelmaking, jobs and the wider community. We will wait and see if any such deal is forthcoming.”
