French contract’ for Britain’s new fleet of nuclear submarines ‘betrays UK steelworkers’

A union boss has said British steelworkers have been betrayed as it was reported that a foreign firm will supply metal for the new fleet of nuclear submarines.
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon is today due to press the button to begin work on the £41bn Successor submarine plant at BAE Systems’ plant at Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria.
However, the flagship project of the Government’s defence policy has been rocked after it was revealed that French group Industeel will supply steel for the new submarines’ “pressure hulls”.
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