It’s not a typical culprit that has ruffled Labour party feathers this week but instead the party’s former leader. In a notable intervention, Sir Tony Blair insisted on Tuesday that the current ‘irrational’ approach to hitting the net zero carbon emissions target by 2050 was ‘doomed to fail’, before pointing out that the ‘inconvenient facts’ of supply and demand for fossil fuels are rising. Yet despite the hit to Sir Keir Starmer, it transpires that one of the Prime Minister’s own cabinet secretaries agrees with Blair’s assessment. How very curious…
Speaking on Times Radio this morning, Environment Secretary Steve Reed remarked that he did, in fact, agree with ‘much of what [Blair] said’.
Speaking on Times Radio this morning, Environment Secretary Steve Reed remarked that he did, in fact, agree with ‘much of what [Blair] said’ – before adding that the UK government was not ‘forcing people to do anything’ in the mission to get to net zero.
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