Boris Johnson has hit out at his expected successor Liz Truss’s plans for fracking as he confirmed £700m in government funding for a proposed new nuclear power plant at Sizewell in Suffolk.
The Tory leadership frontrunner has promised to lift a moratorium on the controversial technology as part of a drive to improve the security of the UK’s energy supplies in the wake of the eye-watering spike in gas prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
