Why Conservatives can’t blame Labour for the country’s lack of new nuclear
In this week’s Gossage Gossip, our columnist discusses the famed opposition David Cameron had for nuclear power.
The previous Labour Government is not solely to blame for the lack of new nuclear in the UK, as this week’s Gossage Gossip explores.
Those who, like the new Prime Minister, bemoan the failure of past Labour governments to promote masses of new nuclear power stations, may care to consider these prophetic words from her Conservative predecessor, David Cameron, uttered just before the Conservatives regained power in 2010:
"Where the [Brown] Government sees nuclear power as the first choice, under our framework it would become a last resort. We need to think in an entirely new way about energy. The future of energy is not top-down, it's not centralised – it's bottom-up and decentralised."
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