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		</div><p>Former prime minister Tony Blair has spoken out against the prospect of a second Scottish independence referendum, insisting such a vote should not take place “unless there is a really big groundswell of opinion for it”.</p>
<p>The one-time Labour leader, whose government created the Scottish Parliament, voiced his fears that a fresh vote on independence could “fundamentally” damage the UK.</p>
<p>Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has already made clear her desire to hold a ballot within the next two years.</p>
<figure id="attachment_131346" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-131346" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/49E95A26-6D7B-4E1E-ABAF-234F3CE4BFB6.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-131346" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/49E95A26-6D7B-4E1E-ABAF-234F3CE4BFB6.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="405" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-131346" class="wp-caption-text">Nicola Sturgeon]</figcaption></figure>
<p>The SNP leader cites Scotland being removed from the European Union against the wishes of voters north of the border as grounds for another referendum, arguing this is a “material change in circumstances” from the 2014 vote.</p>
<p>But Mr Blair told The Herald: “I don’t think we should have one unless there really is a big groundswell of opinion for it and I don’t see that.</p>
<p>“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.”</p>
<p>Mr Blair spoke out in an interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the first Holyrood elections in 1999.</p>
<figure id="attachment_131347" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-131347" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ED98BBA4-73DA-4FC9-A6C3-CD6BDD4459CF.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-131347" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ED98BBA4-73DA-4FC9-A6C3-CD6BDD4459CF.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="412" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-131347" class="wp-caption-text">Tony Blair at the Scottish Parliament in 2000</figcaption></figure>
<p>The Parliament came into being after Scots voted for the devolved assembly in a referendum in September 1997 – four months after he was voted in as PM following a landslide Labour victory.</p>
<p>In the interview he stressed he still wanted Scotland to be part of the UK, saying people should “be in no doubt about that”.</p>
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<p>But he conceded that Brexit was seen by independence supporters as another reason for Scotland to break away from the rest of the UK</p>
<p>“If you’re a Nationalist, it gives you an additional argument, which is another very good reason, by the way, for not doing Brexit,” Mr Blair argued.</p>
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