Climate experts and politicians round on Tony Blair for ‘wrong message’

<p>Former Labour PM accused of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform after saying net zero strategy faltering</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/apr/30/labour-tories-local-elections-2025-pmqs-tony-blair-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-uk-politics-live-news-updates">UK politics live – latest updates</a></li></ul><p>Climate experts and politicians have criticised Tony Blair for claiming that any strategy that relied on rapidly phasing out fossil fuels <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/29/phasing-out-fossil-fuels-doomed-to-fail-tony-blair-climate">was “doomed to fail”</a>.</p><p>The former prime minister’s comments, published in a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), prompted an internal row in Labour, with some accusing him of playing into the hands of a narrative used by rightwing parties to delay climate action.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/30/tony-blair-risks-sending-absolutely-wrong-message-says-climate-expert">Continue reading...</a>