emerges triumphant following the poll on May 6. In an interview with ITV due to be broadcast tonight, Blair said the Union between Scotland and England would already "be in tatters" if his party had reneged on its 1997 manifesto pledge to create a Scottish Parliament.
Boris Johnson was criticised after he was overheard telling Tory MPs last year that devolution had been "Tony Blair's biggest mistake" as it had undermined the strength of the UK.
Asked if there were mistakes and weaknesses with devolution, Blair said: "If the Labour Party hadn’t implemented its manifesto commitment to do devolution in 1997, the union would already be in tatters."Where I think we were wrong was in believing that devolution would end the argument of.
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