Isabel Hardman Isabel Hardman

Cameron and Salmond: We shall not be moved

In the past two days, both David Cameron and Alex Salmond have denied that they will step down if their side loses the Scottish independence vote. The Scotsman reports Salmond saying:

‘No. We will continue to serve out the mandate we have been given and that applies to the SNP always. It applies to me – all of us.’

And yesterday David Cameron took special care to not to produce an easily-repeatable soundbite on his own position, while trying to remove the possibility that voting ‘Yes’ would result in his resignation. This could have been a gift for the SNP, who have made the campaign as much about getting rid of the Tories from Scotland as Scotland being a more equal, nicer country than the rest of the UK. The Prime Minister said:

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