Tony Blair says IndyRef2 could “fundamentally” damage the UK
The UK’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, criticised the SNP’s calls for a second Scottish referendum.
Mr Blair said that the vote should not occur “unless there really is a big groundswell of opinion for it and I don’t see that.
“To be brutally frank about it, the last thing we need at this moment is another huge dose of constitutional uncertainty, we really would start to damage ourselves fundamentally as a country.”
He spoke in an interview marking the 20th anniversary of the first Holyrood elections, following devolution in 1999, saying that he wanted Scotland to remain in the UK.
He also criticised Brexit, conceding that it was fuelling the cause for independence saying:
“If you’re a Nationalist, it gives you an additional argument, which is another very good reason, by the way, for not doing Brexit.”
