Michael Shanks: “This misunderstands the risks those working in politics face.”

I totally accept that people might not like that, but it is critical national infrastructure and it has to be built somewhere.

We respect the devolution settlement. The Scottish government has a view on not approving planning applications for new nuclear. We are not in the business of riding roughshod over that, but I am not going to stop making the case for the…

To be clear: there was no threat to the wider grid and nobody lost power. We have one of the most resilient energy systems in the world.

Safety in the workplace must always come first.