2 former UK prime ministers favor Britain staying in the EU

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan speaks during a Labour party “Vote Remain” campaign event, at The Shard in London Thursday June 9, 2016.

He said: “Surely this is the most irresponsible talk that can be perpetuated in terms of Northern Ireland – very risky, destabilising and it should not be happening”, he added during the business statement in the Commons.

Mr Dodds said that any suggestion that peace was at risk was “irresponsible nonsense”, while Ms Hoey dismissed Sir John and Mr Blair as “yesterday’s politicians”.

But the former Labour Prime Minister rejected allegations of scaremongering.

Sir John warned a Leave vote in a fortnight’s time could “tear apart the UK” and would risk “destabilising the complicated and multi-layered constitutional settlement that underpins stability in Northern Ireland”. “They know that the peace process in Northern Ireland has never been more stable”.

“We’ve had the common travel area between the Irish Republic and the United Kingdom since 1923”.

Hitachi boss Hiroaki Nakanishi has come out against Brexit, and Mr Cameron said the train plant, which will employ more than 700 people, would find it easier to sell into Europe if we remain in.

Vote Leave has said Irish citizens would still be able to travel freely to and from the United Kingdom in the event of it leaving the European Union, even though there would be controls on all other European Union citizens coming into the United Kingdom once the United Kingdom was no longer bound by EU-wide freedom of movement rules.

The average contradicts our latest week-long poll which closed with 35,731 entries – of which 71 per cent said they intend to vote Leave, 27 per cent said Remain and two per cent were undecided.

Asked whether he was convinced that Mr Johnson’s support for the Leave side was absolutely clear in this way, Mr Blair replied: “I f you look back at some of the things he’s said in the past, it’s indicated that he thinks it would be wrong for Britain to leave the European Union”.

“To everyone who is wavering”, Mr Major said about the Brexit vote, “please understand the potential, perhaps the likely, consequences”.

“These relationships are today stronger and better than ever before”, said Mr Blair.

It would be a historic mistake to do anything that destabilised the carefully achieved peace that had been achieved.

“If we throw the pieces of the constitutional jigsaw up in to the air, no one can be certain where they might land”, Major said.

And he accused them of “ignoring” Northern Ireland in the debate about leaving the EU.

“If migration rules changed and non-Irish EU citizens crossed the Border without a lawful right to enter, they would not be able to work lawfully or open a bank account or rent a home and could potentially be removed”, she said.

Dismissing Mr Flanagan’s warning that Border controls were inevitable if the United Kingdom voted to quit, she said nobody in the Republic or Northern Ireland wanted to see this happen.

In response to this, Brexit campaigner Nigel Lawson said: “There would be border controls but not a prevention of genuine Irish coming in”. “It would be deeply damaging and reckless”.

“We’re on the slope to all the trappings that very few people would want”, he said.

Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers, an opponent of European Union membership, said the comments by Mr Blair and Mr Major were irresponsible.