A Labour MP has said he would vote for independence if he was still living in Scotland.
Leeds East representative George Mudie, who was born in Dundee and educated in Fife, made his views known yesterday.
“If I were in Scotland I would be voting for an independent Scotland,” he said in a radio interview.
He added: “The opportunity should be given, and is being given, to people in Scotland to say ‘do you want to be independent?’
“Now, if I were to ask you as an Englishman ‘do you want an independent England?’ Yes.”
Mr Mudie was elected to the Commons in 1992, serving as a deputy chief whip and a junior education minister in Tony Blair’s Labour government. He is due to stand down at the next election.
A Scottish Labour spokesman said: “George Mudie is entitled to his opinion, but we know the overwhelming majority of Scots share the view of the president of the United States Barack Obama that we are better together.”
