Backbench Tory MPs are being urged to join the battle to prevent the break-up of Britain by persuading the English they are better off in a union with Scotland, the Daily Telegraph can reveal.

Britain's senior mandarins are freezing Alex Salmond's top civil servant out of high level talks about Scottish independence.

A very useful contribution from Lord Ashcroft this morning, in the form of a poll he’s commissioned on Scottish independence. What sets Ashcroft’s poll apart from previous surveys is that he asks three different questions to three different sets of around 1,000 Scots.   The first is the question Alex Salmond wants on the ballot paper at the referendum: ‘Do you agree that Sco...

The new LDV members’ survey is now live. So if you are one of the c.1,300 registered members of the Liberal Democrat Voice forum — and any paid-up party member is welcome to join — then you now have the opportunity to make your views known. Questions we’re asking this month include: what you think

It looks like Fraser was right to question Vision Critical’s recent Scottish independence poll. That poll surveyed just 180 Scots and found 51 per cent saying they would vote ‘Yes’ to Alex Salmond’s referendum question – ‘Do you agree that Scotland should be an independent country?’ – and just 39 per cent saying ‘No’. Today, I...

With the SNP calling for a Scottish Independence referendum, the question asked by the Labour party is how will this affect Wales. What they really asking is how will it affect the Labour party. Over the years Labour MP’s in England as relied on both Scottish and Welsh MP’s to hold a majority in the London governments. If Scotland was to become independent and Wales will lose 10 MP&rsq...

The SNP's opposition to the location of British nuclear weapons in Scotland is well-known, and it mirrors majority Scottish public opinion pretty accurately. MoD thoughts are now turning to the knotty problem: if Trident is kicked out of Scotland where will it go?

Ed Miliband has argued that breaking up the UK will undermine efforts to tackle the recession and poverty by creating artificial competition between England and Scotland.

Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned that efforts to improve social justice would be hindered by Scottish independence.

Labour leader Ed Miliband is giving a speech in Glasgow and is expected to address the issue of Scottish independence.