Sir Tony Blair of Britain’s Labour Party was the UK’s most successful leader since Margaret Thatcher.

So it’s news that his foundation has issued a searing report questioning Britain’s current Labor government over its obsession to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050 (“Net Zero”)

In a foreword to the report, Blair says “voters feel they’re being asked to make financial sacrifices and changes in lifestyle when they know that their impact on global emissions is minimal.”

“Political leaders by and large know that the debate has become irrational,” Blair writes. “But they’re terrified of saying so, for fear of being accused of being ‘climate deniers.'”

“Any strategy based on either ‘phasing out’ fossil fuels in the short term or limiting consumption is a strategy doomed to fail,” he added.

No one believes that Blair has abandoned the elite climate change consensus. Rather,  it’s likely that he has decided to go public with his doubts in order to provide cover for Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer to rein in the more extreme elements of Net Zero.

Nigel Farage, leader of the Reform Party, reacted to Blair’s report: “Even Tony Blair now says the push for net zero has become ‘irrational’ and ‘hysterical’. We are winning the argument!”