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LBC 7th Aug 2020 The Chancellor refuses to rule out a U-turn on the involvement of China in
the building of the Bradwell nuclear power station in Essex. Tom Swarbrick
asked Chancellor Rishi Sunak if the Government would still allow a Chinese
state-owned nuclear power company to build a nuclear power plant at
Bradwell, in Essex. Rishi Sunak said the Government’s position hasn’t
changed adding “decisions haven’t been made” for the project.

The
Chancellor said the Business Secretary would be the lead minister on this
issue and he thought a paper would be published on it in Autumn. When LBC
host Tom asked if the Chancellor thought Chinese president Xi Jinping was a
“reliable partner,” Mr Sunak said he thought the UK should have an “eyes
wide open relationship with China.”

He added the country was “obviously
important to us in many ways” for supply of goods and as a trading partner.
But, the senior Minister said, “we should be eyes wide open where we have
different values and interests and we should be robust in standing up for
those things.” The Chancellor cited Huawei as an example of the Government
taking “quite strong, and significant action over time.”https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/presenters/tom-swarbrick/chancellor-says-uk-needs-eyes-wide-open-relationship-with-china/