AXED CHEMICAL PLANT IS LOSING £1M A WEEK

Starmer says focus on helping workers

- BY CHRIS MCCALL Deputy Political Editor

KEIR Starmer has revealed the closure-threatened Mossmorran plant in Fife is losing £1million a week after its American owners blamed the UK Government for the shutdown.

Texan-based ExxonMobil announced it was pulling out of the Fife Ethylene Plant yesterday after 40 years, in a move that could cost hundreds of jobs.

But Starmer told MPs the business was no longer viable and would not receive UK Government support.

ExxonMobil chairman Paul Greenwood had tried to claim the closure was partly down to "deliberate" decisions taken by Labour ministers.