The Liberal Democrats have performed a major policy shift, saying the party now accepts that new nuclear power plants should be built to tackle climate change. At the party's annual conference in Glasgow on Sunday 15 September, members voted to support a motion that the party "accepts nuclear power stations could play a limited role in future". It comes with the caveats that "concerns about safety, disposal of radioactive waste and cost (including decommissioning) must be adequately addressed", and there cannot be any "public subsidy" for new plants, but those do not mask the significance of the shift.
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