I’M ALWAYS saddened when significant exchanges in the House of Commons go unreported by the national press. Take, for example, Jack Cunningham’s recent intervention, when Patricia Hewitt, the Trade and Industry Secretary, announced the government’s important White Paper on energy.
Cunningham, who is MP for Copeland, in Cumbria, welcomed the policy statement and said he hoped that its aims for renewable energy can be achieved. However, he was also glad the government had a clear commitment to retain the option of using nuclear power in the future. No surprise this, as his constituency includes the nuclear reprocessing centre at Sellafield…
