Sir Tony Blair has urged Energy Secretary Ed Miliband to ditch his 2030 clean power target and cut green levies as his think tank warns that current climate policies are driving up costs for homes and businesses.
A new report from the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), personally approved by the former prime minister, claims the government’s commitment to fully decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 is “destroying industry” and “damaging households.”
The intervention, which has sparked fury within the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, highlights growing divisions inside Labour over the pace and affordability of the party’s green transition.
The report’s authors, led by Ryan Wain, said Labour’s clean power agenda risks pushing voters “towards populists” such as Reform UK ahead of next year’s regional elections, warning that the government’s energy policies “must be recalibrated around affordability.”
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