Former British Prime Ministers John Major and Tony Blair have warned a vote to leave the European Union (EU) will “jeopardize the unity” of the United Kingdom.
Campaigning together in Northern Ireland on Thursday, the former Conservative and Labour prime ministers suggested a Leave vote could re-open the issue of Scotland’s independence and put Northern Ireland’s “future at risk”.
The two politicians played important roles in the Northern Ireland peace process in the 1990s.
Major said if Scotland found itself out of the EU, there was a “serious risk” of another independence referendum and the result would be different to the one in 2014, when Scots voted 55-45 percent against independence.
He argued that a Brexit vote would be a “historic mistake” that could also risk “destabilizing the complicated and multi-layered constitutional settlement that underpins the present stability in Northern Ireland.”
“It would throw all the pieces of the…