Sir Keir Starmer meets with British Steel workers near Scunthorpe shortly after the Steel Industry (Special Measures) Bill passed the House of Commons unopposed. The prime minister tells the steelworkers: "I felt it was really important today, having been in Parliament this morning, to come straight up here to see you face to face to have that discussion”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Hi, welcome to see you.
00:04Good to see you.
00:09Thank you very much.
00:09Great job, very nice to see you.
00:12Hi, thank you a lot.
00:14Hiya.
00:15There you go, sir.
00:17You're good, Eric.
00:18Nice to see you.
00:19Hiya.
00:20Nice to meet you.
00:22I'll just, um,
00:23firstly, just thanks very much for giving up a bit of time this morning to talk to me.
00:27I'd want to talk to you about what's happening at Scunthorpe.
00:29The Future of Steel, and we've been really pleased that this emergency legislation is
00:34going through Parliament now with the backbone of British Steel.
00:38And it's really important that we recognise that.
00:41And I felt it was very important today, having been in Parliament this morning, to come straight
00:45up here to see you face-to-face, to have that discussion, living and breathing, which is
00:50your jobs, your lives, your communities, your families, the Future of Steel in this country.
00:55So I'm really pleased that we've been able to roll up our sleeves.
00:57It was pretty, um, unprecedented when the, when the Speaker said, you know, okay, it's
01:02a recall in Parliament.
01:03When do you want to recall?
01:04I said, tomorrow morning.
01:06I remember that one.
01:07When I was in Scunthorpe talking to you, I could see that one.
01:11There was a determination from, um, both the workforce and the management to actually
01:15get, um, keep the glass furnaces going, get this over the line, get that arc, um,
01:20the entryguard furnace in and secure the future.