We must give Britain the air defence system it needs
Soon after construction began at Hinkley Point C, I stood in a massive hole on the Somerset coast watching millions of tonnes of concrete being poured all around me. As this took place, EDF’s public affairs team assured me – and my constituents living a few miles downwind – that the nuclear reactors that would fill that hole would be protected by a dome so strong it would withstand earthquakes and even a direct hit from a commercial airliner.