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What is behind Tony Blair's net zero intervention?
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Tony Blair has added his voice to the growing chorus of net zero scepticism.
He joins Tories and Reform in in turning his back on the policy which has defined Britain ’s approach to climate change since it was signed into law in 2019 .
He described the UK 's current decarbonisation trajectory as riven with irrationality’.
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formal
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English
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53
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