UK prime minister Boris Johnson has vowed that a new nuclear power station – probably with two units – will be built at Wylfa on the island of Anglesey in north Wales.

Mr Johnson made the promise during a visit to the area as part of campaigning for local authority elections on 5 May.

Mr Johnson said he wanted it to get the Wylfa project going “as fast as possible". He said: “We need to get the right type and we need to make sure that we go ahead with the right model. We want to make sure we get the right deal for the UK taxpayer.

“But we also want to have something that's really ambitious, and that is going to do justice to the scale of that Wylfa site.” He said there could be “a couple of reactors” put at the site.

“We’re now working on all this very, very fast. We want to get going on Wylfa in the next couple of years. It’s going to happen,” he added.