For the first time in more than 40 years, the steel industry has the power to make or break political fortunes. Not since the early 1980s, when Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cut her heavy industry-crunching teeth on nationalised British Steel before turning her gimlet eye to coal has steelmaking provided such feverish controversy.
.jpg?trim=0,77,0,76&crop=&quality=70&width=280)
