
Business and Energy
The Bottom Line
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Do We Really Need a Government to Help the Steel Industry?
Every cenareo for sectors like steel to move to net zero involves us using more electricity, not less. So if the electricity price is un competitive than in the u k then we stop in our tracks on that journey to net zero. The real challenge is, and i heard, i actually mary macalis say this the other day on television, the former president of ireland, we shouldn't waste a crisis. And ultimately remembering that 90 ty nine percent of businesses in the uk, 99 percent are small and medium. They provide more employment than the whole of the public sector and big business put together. You will never get to nat sero without having those small businesses on
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