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Port Talbot management in 'steelworks takeover bid'

A potential buyout of the Port Talbot steelworks is to be led by one of its most senior staff.

Stuart Wilkie, Managing Director of Tata Strip Products UK, is heading up a buying team alongside other staff members, ITV News understands.

Meanwhile Tata Steel has announced another round of job cuts in Britain as it significantly reduces production.

The company is to cut 1,050 jobs in the UK, including 750 at its plant in Port Talbot in Wales. A further 300 jobs will go in Llanwern, Trostre, Corby and Hartlepool.

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Union urges 'pro-China' government to save UK steel jobs

Steelworkers’ union Community has called for immediate "meaningful" government action and urged Tata Steel to make clear its "long-term" commitment to the UK steel industry as the firm prepares to put more than 1,000 out of work.

Steelworkers' union Community accused the government of being a 'cheerleader for China' to the detriment of UK steel jobs. Credit: PA Wire

Tata is expected to announce 750 jobs will go at the Port Talbot steelworks and 300 will be cut at steel mills in Llanwern, Trostre, Corby and Hartlepool.

Today’s announcement is no reflection of the skills and commitment of the Tata Steel workforce, which has been breaking production records over the past year. Rather, it is yet another chapter of the UK’s ongoing steel crisis and the lack of a proper government response.

The dumping of cheap Chinese steel is one of the biggest causes of this crisis, yet the UK Government remains a cheerleader for China and their bid for ‘market economy status’, which would decimate what’s left of our steel industry. This cannot be allowed to happen.

The workforce has made significant sacrifices in recent years, on the assurance that jobs would be protected. However, rather than delivering on this promise, Tata have simply continued to slash jobs. Tata Steel must now come clean about their long term commitment to the UK.

– Roy Rickhuss, Community’s General Secretary
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