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‘Questions remain over Sanjeev Gupta’s plans to change Port Talbot over to using arc furnaces’ – Wales Online
14th April 2016 |

Report on the steel crisis, and on the option of replacing the blast furnaces at Port Talbot with electric arc furnaces which critics claim produce lower-grade steel –  Professor David Blackaby is quoted saying that the “only way for Britain to survive as a steelmaker is to produce high-quality steel”. The report can be found…

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EU Referendum project reveals: Young EU supporters are more likely to turnout on the day
8th April 2016 |

Dr Sioned Pearce uncovers new findings in favour of the ‘Remain’ campaign. The research, from the ‘Should we stay or should we go: Young People and the EU Referendum‘ project, has revealed young people who want to Remain are more likely to vote than those who want to Leave. 68% of young people who want Britain…

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Young EU supporters are more likely to turnout on the day
8th April 2016 |

  We know support for continued EU membership is heavily concentrated among younger citizens with 60% under 30 who support REMAIN, compared with only 24% who support LEAVE. Among the Pre/Post-War generation 54% support LEAVE and 35% support STAY. We also know young people are less likely to vote with 70% highly likely to vote compared with 88% among the oldest generations. What we didn’t know is…

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Young people are becoming steadily more supportive of EU Membership – but it could all come apart in an instant
7th April 2016 |

Depending on your perspective, the campaigns for a remain/withdrawal vote in the EU referendum have had between six weeks (since David Cameron announced the date of the referendum on 20th February) or more than two years (since David Cameron announced that the plan to hold a referendum would be in the Conservative Party manifesto for the…

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