Blair pressured to publish briefing on nuclear power

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners called on Tony Blair yesterday to publish a briefing he used to justify hints that he would approve a new generation of nuclear power stations.

Friends of the Earth has filed a freedom of information request on the “first cut” of the Government’s energy review — due to report before the summer.

Blair told business leaders the “stark” facts he had been shown meant the nuclear question was “back on the agenda with a vengeance”.