My friend and colleague, Sir Edward Leigh, and I were back in the Commons pushing the Govt again to retain the ability to make virgin steel. Both of our communities and constituencies would be badly affected by the closure of the blast furnaces, and the entire country would lose the ability to make our own steel from scratch, making us reliant on imports. I’ve been clear that I want the Govt should to push to keep the blast furnaces for an interim period as a minimum so can explore green ways to run them in the future .