EXCLUSIVE: PM issues rallying cry for the
'special alchemy of the UK'
Together, he says, the nation fills the rest
of the world with 'awe and envy'
Plea came after heated debate as just eight
days remain before polls open
Three banks warned of calamity as Bank of
England rejected plan for sterling
Alex
Salmond prompted anger with comparisons to post-Apartheid vote
David Cameron today issues a highly personal plea to the people of Scotland not to ‘rip apart’ the United Kingdom.
Writing in the Daily Mail, the Prime
Minister tells Scots that the rest of the UK ‘desperately wants you to stay’.
But he warns there will be no second
chances after next week’s referendum: ‘If the UK breaks apart, it breaks apart
for ever.’
With opinion polls suggesting the
referendum is now too close to call, Mr Salmond dismissed Westminster’s
promises about more powers. ‘This is the day the No campaign finally
disintegrated and fell apart at the seams,’ the first minister said. ‘Together,
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg are the most distrusted Westminster
politicians ever – and their collective presence in Scotland will be another
massive boost for the Yes campaign.
‘The message of this extraordinary,
last-minute reaction is that the Westminster elite are in a state of absolute
panic as the ground in Scotland shifts under their feet.’
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