On Greenery, Blair gets it right again
With a few notable exceptions, Prime Ministers often become voices of reason after leaving Downing Street, once freed from partisan constraints.
Tony Blair’s intervention in the net zero debate this week took the political establishment by surprise, but not because he wasn’t talking sense – even Labour-supporting unions agreed with him.
Yet, just ahead of a by-election - which Labour went on to narrowly lose to Reform - and local council elections, the timing of his attack on his party’s "doomed to fail" energy policy was considered odd.
Articulating widespread public frustration over the pursuit of impossible goals, he said people were being asked to make "financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle" when their impact on global emissions was "minimal".
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