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Britain’s Business Secretary Sajid Javid (C) leaving the Tata Steel plant in Port Talbot. Photograph: POOL/Reuters

Sajid Javid also defended his decision to travel to Australia, with his daughter, as the steel crisis was escalating (reports our Graham Ruddick).

Asked whether he regretted taking his daughter on the trip, he said:

“Oh not at all. I think that you know, call me old-fashioned but I’m a father who likes to spend as much time as possible with my children and if that means spending time with them, squeezing it in at work or on a business trip then that’s what I would do.

Responding to criticism that it made the trip look like a “jolly”, he said: