Guardian: George Osborne used a trip to China last week to berate Britain for losing its entrepreneurial confidence and allowing a local nuclear industry to wither. Yet his own decision to subsidise state-owned Chinese and French companies to build and operate Hinkley Point C shows a huge lack of belief in UK competence, and arguably its private sector too.
If the chancellor believes that offering a generating strike price at double the current cost of wholesale energy is a good deal all round then why...