SIR Tony Blair has slammed Labour’s net zero crusade – and demanded a total overhaul of Britain’s green game plan.
The ex-PM warned it was unfair for Brits to “make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal.”
Former PM Tony Blair has slammed Labour’s net zero crusade
AFPThe intervention comes as bungling Energy Secretary, Mad Ed Miliband faces a grilling over his eco diktats[/caption]
In an extraordinary broadside, Sir Tony declared leaders must accept “inconvenient facts” and argued any push to scrap fossil fuels is “doomed to fail.”
Despite having no official role, the ex-Labour chief has been quietly advising Sir Keir Starmer since his election win last year.
The intervention comes as bungling Energy Secretary, Mad Ed Miliband faces a grilling over his eco diktats, just a day after Spain and Portugal were thrown into blackout chaos, which experts blamed on over-reliance on renewables.
Sir Tony’s scathing comments were made in the foreword to a new report from his own think tank, the Tony Blair Institute.
The Labour grandee accused ministers of being “terrified” to admit their green rules aren’t working.
He also argued the climate debate was “riven with irrationality.
Sir Tony said: “Present policy solutions are inadequate and, worse, are distorting the debate into a quest for a climate platform that is unrealistic and therefore unworkable.
“So, the movement now needs a public mandate, attainable only through a shift from protest to pragmatic policy.
“Too often, political leaders fear saying what many know to be true: the current approach isn’t working.
“But they mustn’t be silent – there’s a new coalition to build; one that unites disillusioned activists with technologists and policymakers ready to act.”
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