Johnson backs more UK nuclear and offshore power supplies

The UK has failed to put in enough power supplies for a generation says the PM who calls that a "colossal mistake".

Answering questions at the liaison committee, Boris Johnson said spoke up for nuclear and off-shore power.

He told Conservative MP Philip Dunne the first reactor could be working before the of the decade but predicted the UK “will have to go quicker than that”.

Coverage of PMQs and PM at liasion committee