UK government incompetence

Isn't British Steel indirect through South Africa ?

If so, BRICS is a great thing for the UK

All that's missing from that picture is the Castro Mini-Me from Ukraine.

The products in question are known as 'chinese pig iron' because the quality and impurities are so high that they barely quality as structural materials
The Chinese intentionally flooded the market with it to close down all steel and iron based competition worldwide to form its monopoly

what they didn't expect however....was a series of nations supporting them doing it

Yikes...

Nothing happens in a vacuum. Lord Ben Houchen is a member of the current opposition and the town he is mayor of has a strong steel industry. He has every reason to promote this theory.

There are plenty of other steelmaking sites across the UK, and I would not be concerned about any of the changes happening to British steel production in the coming years unless I myself were a British Steelworker, because the Government Houchen is criticising is the same one investing over £3bn into making British steel more competitive globally by creating redundancies.