Politics latest: Emergency bill to keep British Steel plant open becomes law after King’s approval

Analysis: The one extraordinary feature from today’s debates we shouldn’t overlook Keir Starmer was flying the flag for domestic steel production today as his government passed emergency legislation to give itself extraordinary powers to intervene in the running of the steel works in Scunthorpe and elsewhere. He wants voters to notice his intervention-friendly government has stepped in to save virgin steel production, which was days away from dying out for good because of what ministers call the bad faith behaviour of Chinese owners. The politics and optics of today’s intervention seem relatively simple. What happens next, however, is not. Even…