After the panic in Westminster over the weekend about the Sunday Times‘ poll putting ‘Yes’ in the lead came the something-must-be-dones. David Cameron said he would ‘strain every sinew’ to fight for a ‘No’ vote. But today his official spokesman was quizzed on the suggestion that he might have pulled out of a planned visit to Scotland this week (James reported in his Mail on Sunday column yesterday that the Prime Minister would stay down south this week ‘to leave the coast clear for Labour’). The spokesman said:
‘The Prime Minister will be in Scotland ahead of the election…There has been no change to the plan.’
Even in the summer, before things got as hairy as they are now, Tory MPs heading up to Scotland to campaign were being told that it might be helpful not to announce on the doorstep that they were Conservative MPs.
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