Former PM Blair Warns against Cameron’s EU Referendum Promise

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Former prime minister of the UK, Tony Blair, has made a rare intervention in current politics of the country ahead of Britain’s general election on Tuesday. Blair warned about the dangers of the country leaving the EU. He highlighted that PM Cameron’s promised referendum on European Union membership threatens the British economy.

Heading the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, Blair won three general elections and remained Prime Minister until June 2007, when he stepped down and resigned from British politics. He is now backing Labour leader, Ed Miliband, who has distanced himself from the Blair era. Blair’s statement has come at a time when Conservative leader Cameron has vowed to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with the EU if he retains office and then hold an in-or-out referendum on the outcome by the end of 2017.

However, Blair stressed that even the possibility of leaving the EU will create job insecurity and leave a “pall of unpredictability hanging over the British economy.” He explained that “leaving Europe would leave Britain diminished in the world, do significant damage to our economy and, less obviously but just as important to our future, would go against the very qualities and ambitions that mark us out still as a great global nation.” In his remarks, Blair alleged that “a decision to leave Europe would say a lot about us and none of it good,” adding that Cameron’s promise for a referendum on the issue ” is a completely unacceptable gamble with our nation`s future.”