MPs to debate emergency law to keep British Steel open as prime minister warns national security ‘on the line’

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MPs will today debate emergency laws to save British Steel after the prime minister warned the country's "economic and national security is on the line". Sir Keir Starmer said the future of the company's Scunthorpe plant - which employs about 3,500 people - "hangs in the balance" after its owner said the cost of running it was unsustainable. The prime minister said legislation would be passed in one day to allow the government to "take control of the plant and preserve all viable options". Follow latest: Live politics updates MPs and Lords are being summoned from their Easter recess to...