Claim: The steel industry has been decimated over many years.
Fact-check: 32,000 people work in the British steel industry - Full Fact
Verdict: the number of people employed in steel in the uk - not including steel processing - has fallen from 320,000 in 1971 to 24,000 in 2016.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2018-03-09T00:00:00