Tony Blair Slams Labour’s ‘Unrealistic and ‘Unworkable’ Net Zero Policies

Tony Blair has delivered a scathing rebuke to Labour’s climate policy in a foreword to a new report from the Tony Blair Institute, ‘The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change’. Blair brands Labour’s net zero agenda as “inadequate”, “unrealistic” and “unworkable”:

“The current approach isn’t working… These are the inconvenient facts, which mean that any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail… The disdain for technology in favour of the purist solution of stopping fossil-fuel production is totally misguided… The COP process will not deliver change at the speed required… Political leaders by and large know that the debate has become irrational.