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.

August 1, 2008 12:07pm in Conservatives, Energy, Gordon Brown, UK politics | Comment