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Jeremy Corbyn today urges Theresa May to stand up for thousands of British steel workers whose jobs are being threatened by “bully” Donald Trump’s trade war.

The Labour leader makes the plea as the Prime Minister goes into showdown talks with the US President at the summit of G7 leaders in Canada.

It will be Mrs May’s first face-to-face meeting with Trump since he imposed a 25% import tax on steel imports and 10% on aluminium .

Mr Corbyn is calling on her to show true leadership by confronting the US leader over the tariffs.

He says the taxes, which came into force a week ago and affect the EU, are “bad news” for British industry, putting our steel firms and tens of thousands of workers at risk.

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The Labour leader writes in the Mirror: “The UK’s steel industry and its 32,000 employees are under threat from President Donald Trump’s reckless decision to jack up tariffs on steel.

“Theresa May must take a lead at the summit in calling him out.”

Mr Corbyn warns the tariffs are a scandal that she cannot remain silent over.

He blasts the Prime Minister for lacking the “courage” so far to hold Mr Trump to account.

He also accuses the Tories of failing to act because they are “in the hope of getting a quick trade deal with the US” after Brexit .

The PM told Mr Trump that his steel and aluminium tariffs were “unjustified and deeply disappointing”.

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During a 30-minute phone call she urged the President to rethink but failed to persuade him.

Her spokesman said Britain wanted a tariffs exemption as part of the EU and was not trying to strike a solo deal with the States.

But the US said that Mr Trump had stuck to his guns with Mrs May and “underscored the need to rebalance trade with Europe”.

Brussels has threatened to hit back with higher levies on a range of US goods.

While at the summer gathering of the G7 group of industrialised countries, Mrs May will also hold key talks on Russia, Syria and the use of chemical weapons.

The leaders of Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy, the US and UK are also expected to focus on boosting women’s rights and tackling pollution.

They will meet in La Malbaie, Quebec, a town located in a crater formed when a meteor hit the Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.