Ed Miliband adapts the union flag as a backdrop in his speech in defence of the union. Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Rex Features
Scots will no longer be British if their country votes to leave the United Kingdom, Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned in a keynote speech on national identity.
Miliband insisted that leaving the union would mean that Scottish people would lose their British identity – challenging the argument put forward by the Scottish Nationalists, who have insisted that Scottish people would continue to be British in a geographical sense.
Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National party, has drawn a parallel with the way Swedish or Norwegian people can also consider themselves Scandinavian.
Miliband insisted that leaving the union would mean that Scottish people would lose their British identity – challenging the argument put forward by the Scottish Nationalists, who have insisted that Scottish people would continue to be British in a geographical sense.
Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National party, has drawn a parallel with the way Swedish or Norwegian people can also consider themselves Scandinavian.
