Today’s poll shows Alex Salmond running out of time

There really isn’t much time left. From today, there are just nine and a half weeks until we go to the polls in the independence referendum.

Also today, we have the latest ICM poll for Scotland on Sunday. The main figures are: Yes 34 per cent (down two points), No 45 per cent (up two) and don’t know 21 per cent (unchanged).

If the don’t knows are excluded, the figures are Yes 43 per cent (down two), No 57 per cent (up two).

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Suddenly, that nine-and-a-half week window looks pretty small for the Yes camp.

It means that Alex Salmond and his colleagues have just 66 days to overturn what has become a stubbornly immoveable lead for Better Together.

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