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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Athena Stavrou

Tony Blair calls for more North Sea drilling to protect UK from economic shocks exposed by Iran war

Tony Blair has reiterated calls for Labour to expand drilling in the North Sea, saying the war in Iran has exposed the UK’s “structural vulnerability” to global fossil-fuel shocks.

The former prime minister’s Tony Blair Institute (TBI) piled further pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to back the Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields after Donald Trump’s war sent oil prices soaring.

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