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Nationalisation
Iron and Steel
- Unlike all the other industries nationalised, Iron and Steel were profitable companies with good relations with their workers.
- It was easy to nationalise loss making businesses as owners were happy for any compensation
- It was less easy to justify the taking over of a profitable business
- This policy reinvigorated the Conservatives who now had an issue to fight over.
- Property and shareholder rights