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Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Tuesday the 10th of June,

where the government announces more than £14 billion for a new nuclear power plant at Seiswell in Suffolk.

The government is taking decisive steps today to usher in a new nuclear power plant at Seiswell in Suffolk.

The government is taking decisive steps today to usher in a new golden age of nuclear for Britain.

Also tonight, a foreign office minister tells the Commons the government is sanctioning two Israeli ministers.

One MP welcomes the move but asks... Could he tell the House whether he thinks these sanctions will save a single

Palestinian life? And why is it easier for a bot to get a driving test than a learner?

The secondary market is thriving because what ought to be a government service that is easily available is not.

But first, the Energy Secretary has confirmed that the government is investing £14.2 billion

pounds in a new nuclear plant at Seiswell in Suffolk.

Making a statement to MPs, Ed Miliband, said Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the cost of living crisis that followed

had shown how dependent the UK was on fossil fuels.

He said the country needed to shift to clean, homegrown power

and that demand for electricity was predicted to double by 2050.

This government supports new nuclear because of our belief that the climate crisis is the

greatest long-term threat facing our country and our world, not in spite of it, because of

the imperative of energy security and also because of the good skilled jobs that nuclear

provides.

Ed Miliband said Seiswell C would provide enough power for the equivalent of 6 million homes for 60 years.

He also confirmed that Rolls-Royce had been selected to develop and build the UK's first small nuclear power stations.

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