but really, the prime minister and ministers have to recognise that if this industrial action is allowed to become business as usual in the health service, it is going to be extremely difficult for us to recover services coming out of an incredibly tough winter. the french energy firm edf, which has some five million customers in the uk, says it earned more than £1 billion from its operations here last year. the firm s underlying profit was one point £1 billion, before stripping out one off items. that compares with a loss of £21 million in 2021. edf, a global france based energy firm, generated a £1.1bn profit in the uk in 2022 compared to a global significant loss in other markets. bbc business correspondent, peter ruddick, gives us his analysis. another day, another massive set of profits for an energy company but another day where the full story is slightly more complex than that headline might suggest. edf is a global company,