<div id="readability-page-1">  <p><time datetime="2025-10-23T11:31:11+01:00">    Thursday 23 October 2025 11:31 am  </time></p>         <div>    <div>             <div>             <p>            <span>        Politics and Economics Reporter      </span>                </p>          </div>  </div>    </div>    <figure>    <div>       </div> <img width="742" height="495" src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.cityam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/01K7FA4TBJCRC1HCMP9WKQ7J2N-e1761214308172.jpg/query-dz03NDI?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.cityam.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/01K7FA4TBJCRC1HCMP9WKQ7J2N-e1761214308172.jpg/query-dz03NDI"/>  <figcaption>Blair's think tank has called for a net zero reset. Suzanne Plunkett/PA Wire</figcaption> </figure> <p>Tony Blair’s think tank has called for the government to ditch its 2030 clean power target as it urged the Labour government to focus on making electricity cheaper in order to persuade Brits to use it over gas. </p><p>In a report published by the Tony Blair Institute (TBI), researchers called for the government to “solve” problems including the decline of North Sea oil production, which had made the UK less secure. </p><p>It is the latest indication that Blair has split from Keir Starmer’s government on key issues after the former Prime Minister publicly backed a cut to the top rate of income tax of 40 per cent. </p><p>Central to its net zero policy, the Labour government wants to remove almost all fossil fuels from the UK’s electricity supply by 2030. But the fresh report argues that a focus on making bills cheaper would help to cut emissions and grow the UK economy.</p><p>It also states that a shift in focus would help accelerate electrification across households and industry, which it said was “essential” for decarbonisation.</p><p>“The UK’s current energy strategy risks getting the balance wrong,” energy researcher Tone Langengen said. </p><p>“If the transition continues in a way that raises costs, weakens reliability and undermines growth, it will fail both politically and practically. </p><p>“That failure would erode public support at home, damage Britain’s credibility abroad and hand momentum to opponents of climate action.”</p><p>The TBI also emphasised that the UK required “mass electrification” and that net zero goals were aligned with a greater focus on considering how lower energy costs could improve the UK’s competitiveness. </p><h2 id="h-homegrown-power">‘Homegrown power’</h2><p>The report received an endorsement from the leading energy industry group, Energy UK. </p><p>Chief executive Dhara Vyas said “homegrown power” would allow energy prices to be minimise costs for households and businesses. </p><p>“The energy sector is clear that clean power and electrification is the only way to bring down bills in the long-term by reducing our exposure to volatile fossil fuel markets,” Vyas said. </p><p>“It’s also important to consider whether inaction or delay increases future costs. </p><p>“Businesses investing billions of pounds in our country’s future rely on long-term stability to do so, and so it’s vital that the government continues to provide certainty in order to achieve this much needed transformation.”    </p><p>Earlier this year, Blair said net zero efforts required a reset as people had been asked to make “financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle” they had not expected. </p><p>He suggested that net zero risked losing support if fossil fuels were phased out too quickly. </p><p>A Department for Energy Security and Net Zero spokesperson said: “This report rightly recognises that clean power is the right choice for this country. This government’s clean power mission is exactly how we will deliver cheaper power and bring down bills for good.</p><p>“Our mission is relentlessly focused on delivering lower bills for the British people, to tackle the affordability crisis that has been driven by our dependence on fossil fuel markets.”</p> </div>

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<p>託尼·布萊爾的智庫——託尼·布萊爾研究所，呼籲工黨政府放棄 2030 年清潔能源目標，建議將重點放在降低電力成本上，以鼓勵使用電力而非天然氣。報告強調了大規模電氣化的必要性，並警告當前的能源戰略可能會削弱公眾支持和經濟增長。英國能源公司支持 “本土能源” 的呼聲，以穩定能源價格。布萊爾此前表示，快速淘汰化石燃料可能會危及淨零排放的支持。政府則堅持認為，清潔能源對於降低賬單和解決可負擔性危機至關重要</p>

託尼·布萊爾呼籲工黨放棄重要的淨零排放目標