Phasing out fossil fuels ‘doomed to fail’, says Tony Blair as he calls for rethink of net zero policy – as it happened

The paper itself, written by the TBI’s Lindy Fursman, said that net zero policies were now being seen as “increasingly viewed as unaffordable, ineffective, or politically toxic”. And this is one of the reasons why I’ve been saying that the net zero plans we have are not thought through. Even Tony Blair now says the push for Net Zero has become ‘irrational’ and ‘hysterical’. For example, YouGov published a poll recently saying more than half of Britons support the government’s target of getting emissions to net zero by 2030. The new generation of small modular reactors offers hope for the renaissance of nuclear power, but it needs integrating into nations’ energy policy.