Green light for Hinkley and political exit for Cameron
Political Fix
Financial Times
4.2 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:37.0 | Welcome to F.T. Politics, a weekly podcast on British politics from the Financial Times. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Sebastian Payne, and in this week's episode we'll be discussing |
| 0:45.2 | the green light for the Hinpy Point Nuclear Power Project and David Cameron's legacy |
| 0:50.0 | as he walks away from frontline politics. To do this I'm delighted to be joined |
| 0:54.3 | by George Parker the F.T. political editor Philip Stevens are chief political |
| 0:58.7 | commentator and Jim Picard the F.T. Chief Political Correspondent. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you all for joining. |
| 1:04.4 | And now to the main news story this week, which is the Hinkley Point Power Station returning |
| 1:08.3 | to one of the F.T's favorite topics. |
| 1:10.8 | After a pause over the summer, Theresa May's government has given it the green light. |
| 1:15.0 | After much uncertainty, the huge new project in Somerset is going to be built. |
| 1:19.0 | There have been some changes to the initial proposals, but it's still not quite clear what's going |
| 1:24.2 | on and what went on in the government's rethink. So Jim Picard straight from the |
| 1:28.5 | corridors of power to see the announcement in the House of Commons. Cute has |
| 1:32.4 | what's happened with Hinkley and what the government has changed since it had this pause |
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