00:00We had a strategy which the government is continuing to invest in nuclear for the long term, add more baseload.
00:07Actually our strategy was a little bit more ambitious than the government.
00:10And we've lost nearly a year now of the government prevaricating when we already had plans in place for things like small modular reactors
00:17to continue the build of Hinkley and Sizewell.
00:21So it's the right direction. None of that, because these will take many years to come to fruition,
00:27takes away from the fact the government said they were going to reduce bills by £300.
00:32Everybody's bill is at least £100 higher.
00:35They're making the wrong decisions in the short term and not being ambitious enough in the long term.
00:40It is painfully slow. Part of that is because when the Labour government cancelled the nuclear build programme in 1997,
00:46I know that's a long time, but it dismantled the supply chain, including some of the expertise of regulators to regulate these.
00:53Some of this is about a planning process, but a lot of it is about a legal process that slows everything in this country down
01:00through things like the overuse of judicial review, activists using the law courts to try and re-litigate decisions
01:08that have been made by democratic elected bodies.
01:10That is a big reason why it's so slow to get anything done in this country.
01:14If we want growth, we've got to properly reform that.
01:17I fear this government of lawyers don't have the stomach for that fight.
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