British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss. File photoMOSCOW, Jul 16The UK needs to build more nuclear power plants and produce more small modular reactors to stop being dependent on Russian gas, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said. «I think we should consider gas as a transitional fuel… We also need to build more nuclear power plants, and we also need to build more small modular reactors,” she said during the first pre-election televised debate of candidates for the post of prime minister, answering a question about rising energy prices. Channel 4. Truss is one of the five candidates who made it to the third round of the prime ministerial election. In addition to her, former Treasury Secretary Rishi Sunak, Deputy Minister for International Trade Penny Mordaunt, Chairman of the House of Commons Committee Tom Tugendhat and former Undersecretary for Women and Equality Kemi Badenok took part in today's debate. Boris Johnson, who replaced Theresa May as prime minister in 2019 year, on July 7, announced his resignation from the post of Prime Minister and head of the Conservative Party of Great Britain. He will perform duties until the appointment of a new head of the cabinet.
