Government hits back over clean power claims

The Government has defended its clean energy ambitions after a think-tank warned its policy was no longer fit for purpose.

The Tony Blair Institute said the world has changed "economically, technologically and geopolitically” since the Clean Power 2030 target was set.

“The UK’s energy framework has not adapted to these new circumstances and as a result, policy is drifting away from the fundamentals it must serve,” said a report by the institute.

Although the report says the net zero by 2050 target must “stand firm”, it urges a reset of energy strategy “grounded in economics, system performance and political durability”.

The Government responded by saying its clean power mission is the “only way to bring down bills for good”.

“The alternatives leave Britain dependent on petrostates and dictators whose control of fossil fuel markets helped drive the cost of living crisis, and are not in the interest of the British people.”