ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners are hoping to have the Hinkley Point C deal between the Government and EDF energy re-examined if Labour wins the next General Election.

Members of the Stop Hinkley Campaign, along with Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the Nuclear Free Local Authorities, have written to the Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change asking for the deal to be scrutinised by the National Audit Office (NAO) if Labour is in power in May.

In the letter to Caroline Flint MP, campaigners urge the Labour Party to commit to re-examining the deal while looking at other renewable alternatives.

The letter comes after the deal was hit by more delays last month, meaning an agreement on the project will not now be reached before May 7.

Roy Pumfrey, spokesperson for Stop Hinkley, said: “The recent renewable energy auction held under the new “contract for difference”

pricing mechanism has now shown that without doubt, most renewable energy is cheaper than nuclear power and costs are continuing to fall.

“The least that the Labour Party can do now is to commit to re-examining the Hinkley deal before consumers are forced to pay for overpriced and unnecessary electricity for the next 35 years.”

The group was previously told by LibDem energy secretary Ed Davey that the NAO would not normally look at such a deal unless it had been agreed.

However Ian Liddell-Grainger, Bridgwater and West Somerset MP, feels that the campaigners plea for the deal to be re-examined will fall on deaf ears.

He said: “There are no grounds for the NAO to re-examine this deal whatsoever.

“This is the first time that the Conservatives, Labour and Lib Dems are all in agreement.”