The confusing plot of the Hinkley C soap opera

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Labour's Alan Whitehead reflects on a disorientating few weeks for the UK's clean energy strategy that could leave the government on the hook for a multi-billion pound payout to EDF

'Confused? You will be , after this episode of... soap' So ran the strapline of an early 80's American sitcom of the same name, intended as a satire on said soaps, and featuring increasingly improbable...

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