Former British prime minister Tony Blair described Brexit as “terrible historic mistake” and vowed to do “everything” to stop it, in a speech from Munich on Friday.
Addressing a crowd of students at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Blair said he was still “uncertain” about whether the UK will leave the European Union (EU) on March 29.
“It changes almost day by day,” he told the crowd.
Blair, who led the country between 1997 and 2007, said the referendum result could threaten the viability of the Union, with Scotland voting heavily to remain in 2016.
“This is causing tension between Scotland and England. I think if we do a Brexit that is a ‘hard Brexit’, so we actually get out of the European trading systems, this is going to be a problem,” he said.
The ex-Labour leader also believes “the vote might be different today”, with the narrow advantage in favour of Brexit, which won by 51.9% to 48.1%, potentially cancelled out as younger remain-supporting voters replace older leave-supporting voters.