Westminster diary

GLOBAL warming continues to force the mercury up the glass, and there’s no doubt that if we are ever to control it, we must move over to cleaner ways of generating our energy. Nuclear power stations don’t produce the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, so it is clear we should consider building more of them. I’m not alone in thinking that the government should authorise three new nuclear power stations at Sizewell in Suffolk, Hunterston in Ayrshire and Hinckley Point in Somerset. But as became clear in the recent House of Commons debate “Energy – towards 2050”, the problem of storing and disposing of spent nuclear fuel…