The leader of the Liberal Democrats said the party has given the government their "full backing" to ensure a steel industry remains in the UK. It comes as British Steel staff and civil servants are racing to avert the permanent shutdown of Britain's last primary steelmaking plant. Sir Ed Davey condemned President Trump's tariffs and said it's "essential that we can have steel made in the UK". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I think everyone is really alarmed at President Trump's tariffs.
00:04They're hitting the UK, hitting our businesses and our people.
00:08And the one way people can fight back is by buying British.
00:12We believe in free trade in the Liberal Democrats.
00:15We want an economic coalition of the willing with our European friends,
00:20our Commonwealth friends and other countries to stand up to this bullying from the White House.
00:26The Liberal Democrats have given the government our backing to make sure that we do keep a steel industry in this country.
00:33With the need to invest in our energy, infrastructure, in our defence industries and in housing and transport,
00:40it's essential that we can have steel made in the UK.