Blair sparks climate action row
Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair, March 20233
BLUNDERING Sir Tony Blair sparked anger among climate activists and Labour MPs today following a public call to ditch net-zero policies.
The former premier’s Tony Blair Institute (TBI) think tank was forced to clarify that it backed the government after issuing a report earlier this week calling for abandoning radical action to deal with the climate crisis.
It said: “The report is clear that we support the government’s 2050 net-zero targets, to give certainty to the investors and innovators who can develop these new solutions and make them deployable.
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