Alistair Darling continues to insist that he’s confident of victory in the Scottish independence campaign, telling the Today programme this morning that ‘I am confident that we will win, because we do have a very strong positive vision of what Scotland can be’. But he didn’t strengthen that vision either with further promises about powers that Scotland could expect in the event of a ‘No’ vote, or indeed with any change of tack in his campaign rhetoric. The former Chancellor’s arguments this morning were very much those he has doggedly stuck to all along that have held back wavering voters from supporting ‘Yes’. But when ‘Yes’ has the Big Mo, surely there needs to be something else to counter it from the ‘No’ camp?
There are rumours that this something else might involve devo-max – but Darling was very cagey when asked about that this morning.
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