Andy Burnham has suggested a second Scottish independence referendum could be held if there is public demand for one.The Prime Minister appeared to indicate a vote could be held if there was clear public support, having previously told Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney that a second referendum is “off limits”.Mr Swinney said: “To go from ‘off limits’ to this is an acceptance of the reality that the people of Scotland will decide their own future – not the UK Government.“For the first time since 2014, a British Prime Minister accepts that majority support for a referendum should mean one takes place.”The issue came up during Prime Minister’s Questions, during which Mr Burnham compared the situation in Scotland to the conditions for a border poll in Northern Ireland.In response to a Scottish National Party MP, Chris Law, he said the Good Friday Agreement made clear that a border poll would be “considered by the Northern Ireland Secretary when there is a clear consensus in the country, when public opinion has changed to the point where the call has to be considered”.Downing Street insisted there had been no change in the Prime Minister’s position (PA)“I would say exactly the same situation in Scotland,” Mr Burnham added.“I am not aware that there is a majority of public support for another referendum and until that changes there won’t be one.”Downing Street insisted there had been no change in the Prime Minister’s position.Mr Burnham’s press secretary said: “The PM’s been repeatedly clear on this. In his call with the Scottish First Minister in his first week, the PM stated upfront that another referendum on independence was off limits and as our election manifesto makes clear, Labour does not support independence or another referendum.”In August, the Scottish Government published the draft Independence Referendum Bill to hold a second referendum, which defines the franchise for a vote, and sets out the question the referendum would ask: “Should Scotland be an independent country? Yes or No.”The government said the Bill will be introduced at Holyrood once the necessary powers are secured.In the days after the SNP Government was re-elected in May, a motion in the Scottish Parliament to call on Westminster “to make a Section 30 order under the Scotland Act 1998 to devolve the powers to the Scottish Parliament to hold a referendum on Scottish independence” passed by 72 votes to 55.