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Minister clashes with Badenoch over steel deal claim

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Minister clashes with Badenoch over steel deal claim

Minister clashes with Badenoch over steel deal claim

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the Conservative leader is wrong to say she had negotiated a modernisation plan with British Steel for electric arc furnaces at Teesside and Scunthorpe.

Ms Badenoch posted on X on Friday saying as business secretary in the last Conservative government she had negotiated the proposal, but it was "bungled" by Labour.

After intervening, Ms Badenoch says: "Labour cannot negotiate.

We were negotiating a modernisation deal that would have had limited job losses, just like we had in Port Talbot”.

Report by Blairm.

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