Tony Blair’s thinktank has accused Ed Miliband of driving up energy prices in his push to make Britain’s energy supply more environmentally friendly.
The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) published a report on Friday criticising the government’s green policies and urging the energy secretary to drop some of them altogether, including almost completely decarbonising the electricity system by 2030.
The report feeds into growing criticism from the right about the way the government is pursuing its decarbonisation goal and deepens the antagonism between the two former Labour leaders over climate policy.
The report, written by the institute’s senior energy policy adviser, Tone Langengen, and endorsed by Blair, says: “If Clean Power 2030
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