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Keir Starmer has said he had “productive” talks during a visit to Tata’s giant Port Talbot plant in south Wales.

The Labour leader told broadcasters:

We have ambitious plans for the steel industry. We see this as the future, not the past. That requires strategic thinking about our economy. We want to go to clean power, that will bring down energy costs.

If we are able to put in place our mission for clean power 2030, that will require more steel – and therefore we want the demand for steel to go up. Of course, we need to transition to green steel. But we must do this transition very carefully, protecting the jobs and the skills and the history that we have here in south Wales. Connecting and bridging that to the future, which is green steel.

So, we have been having productive discussions this morning about what I think will be a very bright future for steel. But only with strategic thinking around it.

They’re really living in a situation that my mother-in-law describes as torture.

The whole night there will be missiles, rocket fire, drones – they don’t know whether they are going to make it from one night to the next.