@evoman3957 wrote:

When it was announced that TaTa ( Indian ) Steel, was going to close the Steel works at Port Talbot and possibly sell off ALL its Steel interests in the UK; putting ( potentially ) 15000 people out of work..........I HAD A VISION !!

 

Stop the overseas aid budget to INDIA and plough the money into the Steel Industry, I'd make them pay.......one way or another.

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In 2012 the government announced that after 2015,  it was withdrawing all UK aid to India.

Was there was there a last minute U-turn on that policy?