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SCOTTISH independence would wreck Britain’s special relationship with the United States and scrap our nuclear deterrent, Sir John Major warned yesterday.

 

Sir John Major hit out at Alex Salmond [GETTY]

The former Premier hit out at Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond’s promise to remove the Royal Navy’s Trident submarine base from Faslane on the Clyde. He said: “That would in effect be the end of the serious British deterrent. You can’t just move those subs – they need proper ports, they need proper facilities.”

Sir John added: “That affects every European country and Nato. How will the US react when one of the only two countries with a credible military and nuclear capability suddenly has the capability effectively wrecked? This affects our security.

“There are long-term strategic questions that depend on the result of this referendum.”

He said: “If, for example, you see a country beginning to fracture does it have greater or less influence...in the EU, the UN, in G7...self evidently the influence is less.”

Sir John spoke after a YouGov poll suggested that 51 per cent of Scots plan to vote ‘No’ to independence on September 18 while 36 per cent plan to vote ‘Yes’.