Salmond and Darling’s Jeremy Kyle debate reinvigorates campaign

Both camps in the Scottish independence debate have now has their shock: Alex Salmond was shaken to be beaten by Alistair Darling in the first debate, while a confident Darling seemed shaken last night that the First Minister wasn’t giving identical answers to the questions he repeated from his initial victorious round.

As we discussed on our View from 22 special podcast last night, it is very difficult to predict the impact of a resounding victory last night for Salmond on the final result.

But it means the 'No' camp have less of a reason to feel that they are cruising towards victory in the final weeks. Any Westminster MP or Better Together activist who had been wavering over whether to make one more campaigning visit will now know that they must make the effort.