15 April 2025, 14:50

By Mai Rosner

As the government races to keep the furnaces of Scunthorpe firing, fingers are pointing: who’s to blame for the predicament of Britain’s last virgin steel plant?

According to some, the culprit is net zero.

Their argument is simple – green policies led to high energy prices; this tanked the competitiveness of British Steel. It’s also wrong.

Renewables aren’t responsible for pushing up energy bills – fossil fuels are.

It’s true that the UK has the highest energy costs in Europe. But that’s a consequence of our dependency on........

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