Boris approves £700m Sizewell C funding

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has backed the planned nuclear power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk confirming investment of £700m.
The project, which is being developed by French energy company EDF, is expevcted to cost about £20bn overall and needs to attract major institutional funding to get shovels into the ground.
In a speech at Sizewell on Thursday, Johnson said he was ‘confident’ the plant would get the formal go ahead in the course of the ‘next few weeks&rsq