Chutzpah today from the Tories after the breakdown of talks between EDF and British Energy.
Charles Hendry, shadow energy minister, has put out a statement declaring that: “Time is not on our side, as the government has left it very late to give a firm direction for nuclear.”
This seems a bit rich when - until the back end of last year - the Tory policy was nuclear as a last resort.
It wasn’t until early January that the party made its more positive position clear via Alan Duncan.

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