Tony Blair admits he made mistake believing devolution would see off Scottish independence

Tony Blair admits he made mistake believing devolution would see off Scottish independence; ENGLAND:INTTony Blair (Former Prime Minister) along into room greeting reporterTony Blair (Former Prime Minister) interview SOTQ: Boris Johnson says the rise is nationalism is partly your fault, that devolution has been a disaster, your biggest mistake, is that true- I think that is a statement that's put forward in ignorance of the history of devolution / if the Labour Party hadn't implemented its manifesto commitment to do devolution in 1997 the union would already be in tatters / now where I we were wrong was in believing that devolution would end the argument for independence, it hasn't ended it, but it's still a very substantial part of the bulwark against it, but I agree it's proved to be a tougher fight than we've anticipatedQ: Some would look at devolution and the way its allowed nations to assert their sense of themselves during the pandemic for example and say that is feeding nationalist sentiment- I think nations can always imagine themselves as that but I think the other thing the pandemic's done is shown the advantage, for example on vaccine acquisition and production of us all being part of the United Kingdom / I do think one of the weaknesses of the way we approached devolution was not to build real cultural ties that you know, Scotland, England all the different countries in the United Kingdom have in commonQ: How do you do that though without looking like tokenism, flying the Union flag on government buildings for example looks a bit like a gimmick doesn't it- Yeah no it does, so that's, I don't think that's the thing that's going to make the difference / it's emphasising how much we do have in commonQ: If there's a pro-independence majority in the Scottish parliament following these elections, do you think it's tenable for Boris Johnson to continue resisting a second independence referendum- I'm not sure that even if the SNP ...

Tony Blair admits he made mistake believing devolution would see off Scottish independence; ENGLAND:INTTony Blair (Former Prime Minister) along into room greeting reporterTony Blair (Former Prime Minister) interview SOTQ: Boris Johnson says the rise is nationalism is partly your fault, that devolution has been a disaster, your biggest mistake, is that true- I think that is a statement that's put forward in ignorance of the history of devolution / if the Labour Party hadn't implemented its manifesto commitment to do devolution in 1997 the union would already be in tatters / now where I we were wrong was in believing that devolution would end the argument for independence, it hasn't ended it, but it's still a very substantial part of the bulwark against it, but I agree it's proved to be a tougher fight than we've anticipatedQ: Some would look at devolution and the way its allowed nations to assert their sense of themselves during the pandemic for example and say that is feeding nationalist sentiment- I think nations can always imagine themselves as that but I think the other thing the pandemic's done is shown the advantage, for example on vaccine acquisition and production of us all being part of the United Kingdom / I do think one of the weaknesses of the way we approached devolution was not to build real cultural ties that you know, Scotland, England all the different countries in the United Kingdom have in commonQ: How do you do that though without looking like tokenism, flying the Union flag on government buildings for example looks a bit like a gimmick doesn't it- Yeah no it does, so that's, I don't think that's the thing that's going to make the difference / it's emphasising how much we do have in commonQ: If there's a pro-independence majority in the Scottish parliament following these elections, do you think it's tenable for Boris Johnson to continue resisting a second independence referendum- I'm not sure that even if the SNP ...
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