Green policies are not responsible for the Tata steel crisis

Analysis of the figures show Port Talbot may actually have been profiting from efforts to reduce carbon emissions

There was a slew of comment over the weekend regarding the role that Britain's carbon reduction efforts played in Tata Steel's decision to sell off its UK operations.

A Daily Mail editorial called "the crippling green taxes imposed by Ed Miliband's Climate Change Act in 2008" a "monstrous handicap" that had driven the steelworks and its 5,000 workers over the precipice.