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Politics latest news: Environment Secretary backs Blair’s net zero intervention

The Telegraph · last updated

A Cabinet minister has backed Sir Tony Blair’s intervention in the net zero debate after the former prime minister criticised the Government’s approach on going green. 

Sir Tony said the current net zero strategy was “doomed to fail” and it was wrong that people were “being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal”.

Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, said the former Labour prime minister had made a “valid and important contribution” to the debate. 

Mr Reed said he agreed with much of what Sir Tony had said but “not absolutely every word”. 

Sir Tony’s intervention sent shockwaves through Westminster on Tuesday and it was viewed as a direct attack on the approach being taken by Sir Keir Starmer as he tries to hit a target of net zero harmful emissions by 2050. 

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