Gary Gibbon
Ed Miliband: ‘We will do it together’
The idea behind Ed Miliband’s speech was to make the forthcoming election a battle of the plans, and its central message was solidarity – or “the spirit of together”.
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Gary Gibbon
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Gary Gibbon
Commons to vote on IS attacks
Parliament could be recalled as soon as Friday for a vote on military action against Isil in their Iraqi and Syrian bases. The government is increasingly confident it has Labour on board.
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Yes or no? Will the real Andy Murray please stand up?
Andy Murray says his tweet backing the Scottish independence yes campaign was “out of character” – but this is not the first time that Murray has left fans confused about where his allegiances lie.
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Lower voting age to 16, says Alex Salmond
Alex Salmond says the referendum proved 16- and 17-year-olds can be trusted to vote, and tells Scottish politicians they need to hold Westminister’s “feet to the fire” over devolution promises.
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PM: Queen ‘purred down line’ on referendum
David Cameron is overheard saying the Queen “purred down the line” when he gave the result of the Scottish referendum. “I’ve never heard someone so happy,” he said.
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SNP UK’s third biggest party after surge in members
Alex Salmond’s Scottish National Party says over 22,000 people signed up since the referendum vote last Thursday, putting the party’s membership size ahead of the Liberal Democrats.
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Gary Gibbon
Are the Tories really backtracking on Scottish powers?
The political fight over Scottish devolution is raging, and the Tories seem unwilling to move unless the question of English governance is answered.
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Alex Salmond: movement to independence is ‘irresistible’
Alex Salmond tells Channel 4 News that the movement to independence is “irresistible” as it is backed by the younger generation – and adds that older scots were “scared” into voting no.
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Jon Snow
The going of Alex Salmond
We might have been sitting in an undertaker’s waiting room. Something was afoot. You could have cut the air with a knife.
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Gordon Brown’s vision for a Scottish utopia
His impassioned speeches towards the end of Scotland’s referendum campaigning have been credited with securing a victory for no now Gordon Brown has set out his vision for Scotland. So what is it?
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Is sectarianism on the rise after #indyref?
Assaults, masks and flares thrown at police: there are concerns that old sectarian scars could be reopening in Scotland following the independence referendum.
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Alex Thomson
Heated stand-off between rival voters at George Square
Hundreds of people crowded into Glasgow’s George Square tonight, in which police describe as just “handbags”. If this number if young men were hellbent on violence they’d have come tooled and got on with it.
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Paul Mason
The two camps of Yes Scotland: nationalists and radicals
Alex Salmond’s dramatic move – after a night of drama in Scotland and a day of confusion in Westminster – adds another variable to the outcome of the constitutional crisis.
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FactCheck Scotland: what happens next?
So Scotland is to stay part of the UK, Gordon Brown is at the centre of a new deal and Alex Salmond has resigned as Scotland’s first minister. What actually happens next?
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Gary Gibbon
Salmond resignation makes no camp’s win all the sweeter
Opponents of Scottish independence will feel they have brought down Alex Salmond, who has announced his resignation.
