In the past few minutes, Alex Salmond has told a press conference that he is resigning as leader of the SNP and will stand down as First Minister.
Accusing David Cameron of already reneging on the timetable promised by Gordon Brown for the legislation enabling the transfer of powers from Westminster to Holyrood, Salmond said:
‘The Prime Minister said such a vote would be meaningless. I suspect that he can’t guarantee the support of his party and as we have already seen in the past hour, the common front between Labour and Tory, Tory and Labour, is starting to break.’
But he added that
‘The real guardians of progress are no longer politicians at Westminster, or even at Holyrood, but the energised activism of tens of thousands of people who I predict will refuse to meekly go back into the political shadows.
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