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After the government took control of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant over the weekend, many of Monday’s front pages consider what might happen next. “Blast chance saloon” is how the Metro describes the government’s “race against time” to obtain sufficient raw materials to keep the blast furnaces running, after ministers accused the plant’s owners of selling existing materials and not buying more.
The Times reports ministers feared the plant’s Chinese owner, Jingye, planned to “sabotage” the site “to increase British reliance on cheap Chinese imports”. The paper also carries an image – seen on several front pages this morning – of the all-female crew set to fly into space later today. Among those set to blast off are Katy Perry, singer of the aptly named track E.T., and Lauren Sánchez, journalist and fiancée of Blue Origin space firm owner Jeff Bezos.
The i Paper reports that Chinese firms “may be blocked” from critical UK sites following the weekend’s steel drama. It says Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds – who previously said Jingye did not negotiate “in good faith” over the plant’s future – acknowledges there is now a “high trust bar” for allowing such firms to invest in critical British industries.
The Guardian reports “Rivals join race against time” to keep the blast furnaces at Scunthorpe running, as it reports British Steel managers are considering offers of raw materials from dozens of businesses.
Several papers also focus on the attack on prison officers by Hashem Abedi, the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber. The Daily Mirror’s front page headline asks “why on earth did he have boiling oil?”.
The decision to bring in Army planning experts to tackle the Birmingham bin strike is described by The Daily Telegraph as “desperate”. The paper says the move also risks inflaming tensions between Labour and unions, after one of the city’s Labour MPs accused Unite of holding one-point-two million residents “to ransom”.
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