Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has pledged his support to Sellafield workers – but failed to directly back the new Moorside project. During a visit to Copeland yesterday, Mr Corbyn said he was behind workers who are balloting on strike action, but the question on many people’s lips as to whether he would personally support the proposed nuclear complex remained unanswered. Mr Corbyn said: “I know there’s been a problem over the pensions funds (at Sellafield) and unions are quite rightly protesting at the way in which their pension in being damaged and the opportunities for future pensions is damaged. When asked specifically for his views on the £10bn Moorside plant, which will create 20,000 jobs, he said: “The Government is apparently looking at the options and costs involved of the Toshiba programme and what the strike price will be in the end of it, so we’ll have to wait and see what happens with that.”
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