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***** Steel jobs talks for first Wales visit as PM

Sir Keir Starmer will visit Wales on Monday for the first time since becoming prime minister, with talks focussing on steel job cuts.

He is expected to meet First Minister Vaughan Gething amid concern for employees at

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, where thousands of people are facing redundancy.

Sir Keir’s new Labour government has said there is

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with ***** but warned newer technologies would employ fewer people.

Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said his visit was about having “respectful, close working relationships” with governments across the ***.

In a statement, ***** Steel’s *** chief executive Rajesh Nair has congratulated Sir Keir on his victory and said he looked forward “to working with the new government on our shared goals of growing the production of green steel in the ***, and building a positive operating environment for this critical industry”.

Mr Nair added: “In the coming days and weeks we will be engaging with new ministers over our ambitious plans to invest in and transform Port Talbot with electric arc furnace steelmaking, and to supporting our workers through this necessary but difficult transition.”

Ms Stevens said Labour wanted more steel made in Wales and the ***.

“There is certainly a role for ***** to play in that and I want Welsh steel workers to be right at the front of that,” she told BBC Wales.

“There may well be some people who may want to take voluntary redundancy, but we don’t want to see any compulsory redundancies.”

Referring to Sir Keir’s visit to Wales, she said

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in the general election had created a “real mandate here for what we want to see, which is a cohesive ******* Kingdom with respectful, close working relationships between the first ministers, the deputy first ministers, ministers in Northern Ireland, and the prime minister”.

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