Cameron accused of misleading steelworkers
British Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused of misleading steelworkers losing their jobs after the recent crisis in the country’s steel industry.
The accusation came after it was emerged that an £80m fund to help the workers find new work will partly be used to pay their final salaries and redundancy packages.
Cameron has rejected the accusation saying the government had done a lot to help the thousands of steelworkers being made redundant in Teesside and elsewhere. He also insisted the closure of steel plants was a world problem largely beyond the UK government’s control.
“Let me tell the honourable lady what we can’t do. We can’t, in this house, set the world price of steel,” he said.
Media reports say, during Wednesday's parliament session, Cameron was also confronted about the plight of steelworkers by the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn who accused the government of having no industrial strategy to help out the crisis-stricken sector.
On Tuesday, UK’s Tala Steel announced 12,00 job cuts blaming the layoffs in northern England and Scotland on a flood of cheap imports, particularly from China along with high electricity costs and the strong pound.
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