The Prime Minister has stated that burying cables underground is too costly, thus voters who want cheaper energy rates will have to accept new pylons.

 The Prime Minister has stated that burying cables underground is too costly, thus voters who want cheaper energy rates will have to accept new pylons.

“Yes, there is the option to put them below the ground – it costs much more money, and if there’s one consistent theme into and out of the last election, it’s that most people feel they’re already paying too much tax, and I don’t think many would put their hand up to pay more tax in relation to that.”

Plans to build new pylons between Norwich and Tilbury, in Essex, have attracted local opposition, with new Suffolk MP and Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay saying there was “huge local concern about the impact on agricultural land, on traffic, on local communities, on the landscape”.

The pylons would carry electricity from wind farms off the coast of East Anglia, in line with the new Government’s commitment to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030.

As it has previously stated, National Grid has thought about other options. Postponing the project would imply a delay in the area's access to greener energy.

"I do want to be clear: these are serious trade-offs that we're going to have to make and we're going to have to take those decisions," the prime minister said, adding that the government would communicate with people on projects.