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Coffee House Shots

Can Boris leave a nuclear legacy?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Despite a relatively quiet summer from the government, Boris Johnson has waded finally waded into the energy crisis, announcing £700 million of funding for Sizewell C, the nuclear plant. On the podcast, Cindy Yu talks to James Forsyth and Isabel Hardman about what's behind this development (and whether it could be anything to do with Johnson trying to establish some kind of legacy, in the last days of his premiership). Isabel sums up his energy contribution as: 'To a certain extent it's him saying: if you look backwards or forwards, it's not my fault'.

Produced by Cindy Yu.

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0:00.0

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0:09.8

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0:15.6

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:19.6

I'm Cindy Yuen, I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth.

0:23.1

So, James, we've got only a few more days of press Johnson as Prime Minister,

0:27.2

and so far the summer he has been relatively quiet at all on various issues,

0:31.4

but today he has waded into the energy subject and thrown a support behind nuclear power.

0:36.8

Can you tell us about what's happened?

0:38.3

Yes, he's given a big speech, basically backing size we'll see,

0:41.8

announcing more government money for it, and it's a classic Boris Johnson speech.

0:47.2

It's a reference to Lady Bird Books and how that inspired him to be pro-nuclear power,

0:54.0

attempt to blame the last Labour government for the energy crisis,

0:57.1

which I think will be quite difficult to persuade voters of,

1:00.4

and then lots of optimism about how, you know, once you can get through this winter,

1:04.1

we'll be off Putin's hybrid requirements and everything will be better.

1:08.2

I also though thought it was interesting, because there was a first shot from Boris Johnson

1:14.2

across the boughs of a potential Liz Truss premiership.

1:18.4

When he basically said offshore wind is much cheaper and better than fracking,

1:23.4

and that was quite interesting.

1:25.2

Given all the reports we've had in recent days at Jacob Lee's Morg,

1:29.0

a big fracking advocate is likely to be appointed as business secretary,

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