With the closure of Port Talbot, UK must step up investment in green jobs | Larry Elliott

With the closure of Port Talbot, UK must step up investment in green jobs | Larry Elliott

Thousands will lose their jobs in the coming months and the deep scars left by 1970s factory closures remain. Change must be quick

‘It’s heartbreaking’: gloom in Port Talbot as steel town’s last blast furnace closes

It is mere coincidence that the closure of the blast furnace at the Port Talbot steelworks and the shutdown of Britain’s last coal-fired power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar in Nottinghamshire happened on the same day.

Yet they are freighted with significance. Like in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, they represent the UK’s once world-leading economic past, its struggling present, and the way to a possible industrial renaissance in the future.

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