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| Scottish independence: Labour MP George Mudie 'would vote Yes' | Scottish independence: Labour MP George Mudie 'would vote Yes' |
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| A Labour MP has said he would vote for Scottish independence if he was able to do so. | A Labour MP has said he would vote for Scottish independence if he was able to do so. |
| His party is part of the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence. | His party is part of the Better Together campaign against Scottish independence. |
| But George Mudie, the Scottish-born MP for Leeds East, has said he would like to see his home nation leave the UK. | But George Mudie, the Scottish-born MP for Leeds East, has said he would like to see his home nation leave the UK. |
| In an interview with BBC Radio Leeds, the former government minister said: "If I were in Scotland I would be voting for an independent Scotland." | |
| Mr Mudie, who is to retire as an MP at the next election, told the Wes Butters programme: "The opportunity should be given, and is being given, to people in Scotland to say 'do you want to be independent?' | |
| "Now, if I were to ask you as an Englishman 'do you want an independent England?' Yes." | "Now, if I were to ask you as an Englishman 'do you want an independent England?' Yes." |
| Mr Moodie, who was born in Dundee, has represented the Leeds East constituency at Westminster since 1992. | |
| He was a deputy chief whip, and later parliamentary under-secretary at the Department for Education and Employment, in Tony Blair's Labour government, and has been a member of the Treasury Select Committee since 2001. | |
| When Mr Mudie announced he was to retire as an MP, Labour leader Ed Miliband described him as a "fantastic MP" who would be a "huge loss" to the House of Commons. |