LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's new prime minister, Liz Truss, said on Wednesday she wanted to see more extraction of oil and gas from the North Sea and more investment in nuclear power.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, said on Wednesday she wanted to see more extraction of oil and gas from the North Sea and more investment in nuclear power.
Speaking at her first prime minister’s question time in parliament, Truss said she wanted to find ways to address rising energy costs for businesses.
“I want to see us use more of our energy supply, including more oil and gas from the North Sea and nuclear power,” she said.
(Reporting by William James. Editing by Andrew MacAskill)
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest international multimedia news provider reaching more than one billion people every day. Reuters provides trusted business, financial, national, and international news to professionals via Thomson Reuters desktops, the world's media organizations, and directly to consumers at Reuters.com and via Reuters TV. Learn more about Thomson Reuters products: