As the UK searches for post-Brexit investments, why is the new PM stalling Hinkley Point C?

Since voting in a referendum to leave the European Union, the UK has been hard at work on ''shaping the destiny'' of its place in the big wide world outside the family of EU nations - particularly in terms of business and investment. Shortly after this referendum EDF announced the decision to invest in the Hinkley Point C nuclear project. Inexplicably, new UK prime minister Theresa May said there would be no green light or signing of investment guarantees by her new administration, which ''needed more time'' to consider the project. Nuclear power is not the only industry that the UK will need to nurture to make an economic success of the country in the future - but nuclear will be key to the UK's industrial and economic success.