Michael Shanks: “sadly Scotland is missing out on the enormous economic and energy security potential”

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.

I do think it is surprising he is now making what feels like a political intervention.

Scotland will end up being reliant on nuclear being imported from other parts of the UK on days where there's low wind.