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Farage to pledge to reopen blast furnaces in Port Talbot
- Reform UK leader Nigel Farage pledged today to reopen coal mines in Wales to restart blast furnaces at Port Talbot steelworks.
- His proposal responds to the closure of Port Talbot's last coal-powered blast furnace in October 2024, which ended traditional steelmaking and resulted in 2,800 job losses.
- Farage claims mining local coking coal would provide a cheaper alternative to electric arc furnaces, despite experts doubting the feasibility and high projected costs.
- He said Labour has been 'betraying Wales’s great heritage' by closing the blast furnace, while Reform seeks to win working-class voters before the Senedd elections next May.
- The plan faces skepticism as most Welsh coal mines have been derelict for decades, making reopening nearly impossible, and raising questions about the proposal’s realism.
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Labour is losing Wales
In 1900, a few months after founding the Labour Party, Keir Hardie was elected as an MP for Merthyr Tydfil, a mining town in the south Wales valleys. From then onwards, Merthyr Tydfil was a safe Labour seat; mirroring Wales as a whole, it has continually been represented by the party. Ninety-nine years after Hardie was elected in Merthyr Tydfil, the Senedd (which was initially named the Welsh Assembly) was founded. Only Labour have been in gover…
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The SunFarage ready to defy Labour’s net zero orders & open new coal mines in Wales
NIGEL Farage today vowed to defy Labour’s Net Zero orders and open new coal mines in Wales. The Reform chief declared he’s ready to “fight” Sir Keir Starmer to achieve his “ambition to re-industrialise” the country, if he wins power in the Senedd next year. GettyNigel Farage today launched Reform’s campaign for the May 2026 Welsh Senedd elections[/caption] GettyThe campaign kicked off in the industrial town of Port Talbot[/caption] In Port Talbo…
'Nigel Farage's Patronising Coal Mine Fantasy Says a Lot About What He Really Thinks of Working People'
The Reform leader’s pledge to restart Welsh blast furnaces ignores the practical realities of flooded pits, collapsed infrastructure – and the actual wishes of working people, argues Josiah Mortimer
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