In his interview with Times Radio Steve ReedThe Environment Secretary specifically asked about the claim of an unnamed laborer’s source, saying Tony Blair’s net zero comment constituted a tantrum. (See 9.46 am.) When asked if he agreed, Reed replied, “No, I don’t.”

Reed also downplayed the extent to which Blair’s article criticized government policies. He said:

One of the other points Tony raises in his work is the need to focus more on carbon capture and storage technologies. OK, we agree. The government is investing £22 billion in the technology. This is the highest amount of any government investment.

So I think we are doing what Tony Blair said he wants to see, but we are also shifting from dependence, over-reliance on fossil fuels because it's better for the country to control its own energy.

Reed replied that in an interview with LBC, asking Blair if he correctly said "net zero is doomed to fail", Reed replied:

I don't think that's what Tony Blair said, it's fair. This government is transitioning the economy from relying on fossil fuels.

In the foreword, he wrote to him yesterday a report on his IQ, Blair There is no clear talk about UK government policy (he is talking about climate policies in developing countries, although his views on the UK and anywhere else apply to the UK), and he does not directly mention the 2050 net zero goal. But he did say:

Any strategy based on “phasing out” fossil fuels or restricting consumption is a doomed strategy.

Good morning. Tony Blair actually fired the torpedo in his net zero strategy, Keir Starmer faced PMQ, a big part of Labor's change plan. We introduced Blair's comment on the blog yesterday, Jessica ElgotThe story.

Blair has been in office for 15 years, but he remains an influential and knowledgeable figure, and no one in British politics has a better record of winning the election. Until recently, climate policy was a field widely agreed upon by all major parties. back Kemi Badenoch A recent speech said that by 2050, the government's legal goal of reducing carbon emissions to net zero is not achieved (though in fact, the Conservative government has legislated for this purpose, Badennock himself is one of the MPs who approved the sub-legislative legislation without a vote), and with Nigel Farage Now saying that the government does not need to do anything about climate change, the Blair intervention is the final evidence that the current consensus is in trouble.

Badenoch may make this point at PMQS today, not only because a lot of what Blair says sounds like one of her speeches. According to Politico, Farage will also raise questions today.

Steve Reed, The Environment Minister is conducting a morning interview and he downplays the importance of Blair’s intervention. He told the Times broadcast:

(Blair is) making an effective and important contribution to the very important debate we have. I agree with a lot of what he said, but not absolutely every word, dot and comma.

However, this government is turning to clean energy because it is the best for the UK. For the UK, it's more energy security. It is a job and investment throughout the UK. These are all what we all want to see.

Reed is following Ed Milibandwhen asked about Blair’s comments in the commons yesterday, the energy minister said so.

I agree with a lot (Blair’s IQ report) that said. It said we should continue to move forward in the carbon capture and storage that the government has done. It said we should advance the role of artificial intelligence that the government is doing. It said we should continue to move forward with the nuclear weapons that the government has done.

But the intervention of private labor figures in Blair is not as relaxed as these comments suggest. What this is Sam Blewett and Noah Keate Reporting in their London script briefing.

The anger in the Labor ranks was obvious last night, with a campaigner telling the script stroll soldiers that “work hard” before the locals was “incredibly angry.” The well-connected campaigner suggested it was a tantrum of “the people struggling for influence”…even went on to point out that the TBI has received Funds from Saudi Arabia. (Blair's think tank insists that it is "editor-independent.")

This is the agenda of the day.

10 am: Scotland's first minister, John Swinney, spoke at the Scottish TUC conference in Dundee.

morning: Green Party co-leader Adrian Ramsay is running for Doncaster.

noon: Use Starmer the weak bear bidenge in PMQ.

2 pm: Attorney General Shabana Mahmood provided evidence to the Joint Human Rights Commission.

2 pm: Foreign Secretary David Lammy provided evidence to the House of Lords International Relations and Defense Committee.

afternoon: Liberal Democratic leader Ed Davey is running for Tunbridge Wells in Kent.

afternoon: Kemi Badenoch is running for Hertfordshire. She will also be interviewed by GB News.

afternoon: Deputy labor leader Angela Rayner is running for South Yorkshire.

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