Guardian: Former PM Tony Blair is a “serious threat to climate action”
17 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
From green hero to zero. The Guardian even threw in a big oil smear against their former climate hero.
How ‘out of touch’ Tony Blair became a serious threat to climate action
Even before his call for a net zero ‘reset’, there had been criticism of ex-PM’s lucrative links with fossil fuel nations
Fiona Harvey Environment editor Mon 5 May 2025 21.17 AEST
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In late 2022, on the sidelines of the Cop27 UN climate conference, the former UK prime minister Tony Blair was holding high-level meetings with senior figures from politics and business. His role in the negotiations raised questions for some, who began to worry that, having been a respected elder statesman on the subject – one who as prime minister crafted the UK’s first real climate measures, and made it the priority for the UK presidency of the G8 group of countries in 2005 – he might now be becoming, in the words of one Whitehall insider, “a serious threat to sensible climate policy”.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/06/guardian-former-pm-tony-blair-is-a-serious-threat-to-climate-action/
