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Panel’s final report outlines planning and environmental changes to get plants built faster and cheaper
A government taskforce has finalised its plans to speed up and lower the cost of rolling out a new generation of nuclear reactors by streamlining UK regulation.
The nuclear regulatory taskforce was set up by the prime minister, Keir Starmer, in February after the government promised to rip up “archaic rules” and slash regulations to “get Britain building”.
The UK could’ve been a true tech leader – but it has cheerfully submitted to US dominance in a way that could cost it dear Two and a half centuries ago, the American colonies launched a violent protest against British rule, triggered by parliament’s imposition of a monopoly on the sale of tea and the antics of a vainglorious king. Today, the tables have turned: it is Great Britain that finds itself at the mercy of major US tech firms – so huge and dominant that they constitute monopolies in their fields – as well as the whims of…
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The chief executive of CBA, Matt Comyn, has mounted a fierce defence of the bank’s decision to not repay $270m in fees to 2.2 million low-income customers after a report by Asic in July. CBA has already paid $25m in ‘goodwill payments’ to tens of thousands of low-income Indigenous customers after the regulator in 2024 released a report which found banks were keeping vulnerable customers in high-fee accounts. But Comyn this morning doubled down on the bank’s hardline approach to Asic’s more recent report that accused the bank of charging hundreds of millions of dollars in excessive fees to…