The boss of one of the largest unions in Great Britain has been unleashed WorkNet Zero Policies in the event of a blow has Ed Miliband.
With Energy pressure assembly and the zero net secretary,, Sharon Graham warned the ministers not to throw the workers “on the Scrapheap” in order to reduce emissions.
The secretary general of the unit said that there was no “investment” to reach Net Zero “and also secure jobs”.
And she told Times Radio: “Workers want Net Zero, my members have no problem with Net Zero. The problem we have is that there is currently no investment on how we get to that and also jobs.”
She highlighted the developments in Grangemouth, in which the site has ceased as an oil refinery and added: “The problem is that the part of the jobs is not discussed.
Unit Boss Sharon Graham was a fierce critic of the work of Sir Keir Starmer (AP archive)
“There has not been only one thing done so far that I can see in terms of investments in wind manufacturing, in terms of investments in areas like sustainable air fuel (…), all these things have not happened, and you cannot simply plow and throw all these workers on the Scrapheap.”
It came like sir Tony Blair clarified his position after what was largely considered as a attack on government net policies of the government While the row threatened to derail the work plans.
The first Prime minister had warned that the energy secretary ED Miliband's ecological policies and the push towards renewable energies were wrong Because voters know that the financial and lifestyle sacrifices necessary to respond to promises of government will have practically no impact on climate change.
His criticism, contained in the preface to a report for his Tony Blair The Institute (TBI), fueled fury on high energy costs that have exacerbated the cost of living crisis and damaged economic growth by relying on the costs of companies and manufacturers.
But Wednesday, after the calls stretched between the Sir Tony reflection group and Downing StreetA TBI spokesperson insisted that Sir Tony supports current government policies.
The spokesperson said: “The TBI report is clear: we have to prioritize technologies that capture carbon, focus more on protection and improvement of nature, and the development of new nuclear powers, intelligent networks and a new system for financing existing renewable solutions in developing economies. The British government is already pursuing them, and their approach is the right one. ”
They added: “The report is clear (that) we support the government net zero nets 2050 of the government, to give certainty to investors and innovators who can develop these new solutions and make them deployable.”
Tony Blair says that any strategy that limits the use of short -term fossil fuels is “condemned to fail” (PA Wire)
The row occurred less than 24 hours before voters went to the ballot box in the local elections and the Runcorn by -elections, during the first major electoral test of Sir Keir StarmerThe government since last year's election. Downing Street were asked if the civil servants had scrambled to obtain the clarifications of the Sir Tony reflection group, and did not denote that this was the case.
Kemi Badenoch’s official spokesperson told journalists: “She loved the fact that, barely five minutes from PMQS, the Tony Blair Institute seemed to publish this declaration.”
Sir Tony had called on the government to invest more in the capture of carbon, which sees the carbon removed from the air; to authorize fossil fuels Continue to be used; To make more use of technology, including artificial intelligence; And to supervise a deployment of nuclear energy.
The former Prime Minister said that the voters “believed that they are asked to make financial sacrifices and lifestyle changes when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal”.
His intervention on Tuesday came when the climate change committee warned that the United Kingdom Without a critical preparation for climbing climate crisis and accused the government of not doing it enough about it flood,, heat wavesdroughts, and forest fire.
Political opponents seized the report as an attack on Net Zero ambitions by Keir Starmer (PA)
This allowed Sir Keir to claim during PMQs that his predecessor is “absolutely aligned” with the current government.
Responding to the deputy for Dup Sammy Wilson, Sir Keir said: “What Tony Blair said is that we should have more carbon capture – we have invested in carbon capture. These are many jobs in different parts of the country.
“He said that AI (artificial intelligence) should be used; We agree.
“If you look at the details of what Tony Blair said, he is absolutely aligned with what we are doing here. These are the jobs and the security of the future.”
The attempted row cooling came after the environment secretary Steve Reed Earlier Wednesday, admitted that Sir Tony Critics of zero labor policies were “valid and important”.
Addressing Times Radio, Mr. Reed disagreed with a government source which accused the former PM of having “a crisis of public anger”, and declared that Sir Tony “makes a valid and important contribution to a very important debate that we have”.
He continued: “I agree with a large part of what he said, but not absolutely all the words and points and commas. But this government goes to clean energy because it is better for Great Britain. It is more energy security for Great Britain. It is jobs and investments through the United Kingdom. And these are all things that we all want to see.”
It was a very different tone from that used by sources close to Mr. Miliband, who was considered the main target of Sir Tony's anger.
The environment secretary, Steve Reed, said that the own power will reduce the dependence of Great Britain with regard to fossil fuels (PA Wire)
The ally of the Energy Secretary said: “We have just won an election, in part on an argument that we must accelerate the transition of clean energy. The Prime Minister said last week that the clean energy was in government DNA.”
But although he seems to disagree with the hard position of Mr. Miliband, Mr. Reed defended the actions of the government.
This is in particular a 78% tax on energy profits, which increases the price of energy; Drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea; And close the coal mines. Instead, Mr. Miliband has enlightened plans for massive solar parks and renewable alternatives.
Mr. Reed said: “The reason we ask people to take this action is because it breaks our dependence on fossil fuels and people like Vladimir Putin. Why does someone who cares about the safety of the United Kingdom wanted us to remain dependent on fossil fuel dictators?
“We want to regain control of our energy (and) generate more at home, because it gives us more energy security as well as the drop in prices.”
Meanwhile, Sir Tony's former political secretary, John McTern, denied that the former PM's claims disagreed him with Mr. Miliband, adding that Sir Tony's opinions “completely align with Ed Miliband's current policies”.
Nicholas Stern, now a Labor Paying, which was commissioned by Blair in the early 2000s to write a report on climate change, developed the TBI report, calling it “confused and misleading”.
He said it “minimizes science in its absence of an emergency feeling and the lack of appreciation for the world to achieve a net zero as soon as possible in order to manage the growth of the impacts of climate change which already injure households and businesses around the world and the United Kingdom”. He added: “The delay is dangerous.”
