Chris Mason: As British Steel law rushed through Parliament, officials waited in a hotel

There was a moment where all they could do was wait.
Government officials were holed up in a Premier Inn down the road from British Steel’s steelworks in Scunthorpe and parliament’s work to change the law to allow them to take control of the Chinese-owned company was complete.
But they couldn’t move yet.
All they could do – along with all the politicians 200 miles south in Westminster – was wait.
They were waiting for Royal Assent, the formality in the legislative process when the King formally agrees to make a bill an act of parliament, and so the law.

Source: BBC | Language: English