Boris Johnson vows to slash energy bills by building nuclear reactor every year

BORIS Johnson vowed to get people’s energy bills down by building a nuclear reactor every year as he gears up for this week’s local elections.

The PM was yesterday on the campaign trail in Hartlepool - where he won a historic by-election last year - to show how its nuclear power plant could be supercharged with new tech to keep energy costs lower.

Speaking from a power station he said it was “crucial that the government fixes our energy supply issues” to help keep working people’s bills down.

He remarked that France and Switzerland had been able to ride the wave of global gas price hikes thanks to their high tech nuclear stations.

The PM said that was outrageous given Britain was “the country that first split the atom.”

He said: “What we haven't had is the national solutions that the country can deliver and that the people in this country deserve.

“What we want to do is to make sure that we modernise and build a reactor a year, rather than a reactor a decade.

“Now what that will do is it will give the UK the kind of resilience, the kind of self-reliance and the security that we need for our energy supplies.”

Urging people to vote this week he added Tory council’s “offer you better value for money.”