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The UK Labour Party has proven not only that it is backwards looking on energy policy but that it cannot even face reality and change direction. Less than two weeks after the French government announced dangerous defects in the reactor pressure vessel for EDF’s grossly over-cost and late nuclear reactor project at Flamanville, and a little over a month after Bouygues was fined by a French court for using illegal workers at the work site [1], the Labour Green Plan announced, on April 20th, that: “Labour also supports the development of new nuclear in the UK“. http://www.shadowdecc.org.uk/labour_launches_green_plan (April 20 2015)

This has been the long-standing position of Ed Miliband, who as Secretary of the DECC, wanted to fast-track through 10 new nuclear reactors.

Current DECC Secretary Lib Dem Ed Davey, former Labour PM Gordon Brown, and Ed Miliband all have apparent conflicts of interest regarding the nuclear industry…