Boris Johnson has ordered Britain's last coal-fire power power plants to remain open this winter - as Downing Street failed to rule out blackouts for millions of Brits.
Gloomy Government modelling warned up to six million households could be affected by power cuts this winter in a "reasonable" worst case scenario triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
No10 did not rule out the prospect of blackouts this winter but insisted the National Grid and the Government were not expecting shortages.
