Blair said Britain should remain in the EU because of the “strategic and economic” benefits. He said he believed Cameron would “get his demands” in his EU renegotiations.
Cameron hopes to hold the vote as early as June, if he gets the deal he wants from other EU leaders at a summit in Brussels in February.
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, at the weekend told the BBC that holding the referendum in June would be “disrespectful” as elections to the Scottish parliament take place in early May.
Sturgeon also repeated her view that a U.K. vote to leave the EU but a Scottish vote to stay, would lead to “overwhelming demand” for another referendum on Scottish independence.
“The democratic outrage of being taken out of Europe against our will, I think would make that almost inevitable,” she said.
The U.K. government Tuesday published the regulations that will govern the referendum. Included is an image of what the ballot form will look like.
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