The government has been defeated by the House of Lords after it voted against withdrawing from the Euratom European nuclear agreement without securing a replacement deal first. Energy minister Lord Henley said the process of leaving Euratom had already begun, and post-Brexit deals with the US and Japan could be at risk if it was delayed. In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s
The government has been defeated by the House of Lords after it voted against withdrawing from the Euratom European nuclear agreement without securing a replacement deal first. Energy minister Lord Henley said the process of leaving Euratom had already begun, and post-Brexit deals with the US and Japan could be at risk if it was delayed. However, Lord Hutton, the chair of the Nuclear Industry Association, said: "I don't think any of us should take a gamble … with the energy security of our country," and called for Euratom to be retained as a back-up.