New draft of European fiscal treaty: Non-euro countries must be subject to the eurozone???s budget rules if they want to be invited to euro summits; Irish government may face legal challenge if it tries to avoid referendum

First Minister Alex Salmond and Scottish Secretary Michael Moore are to hold independence referendum talks in Edinburgh on 13 February.

"Expats" on wanting a vote in independence referendum

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...

A former Scotland Office minister is calling for a "double referendum" to decide Scotland's constitutional future.

The Conservative eurosceptic backbencher says he has lost faith in politicians as policy-makers in Europe and demands a referendum on future involvement in the European Union.

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...

Civic groups in Scotland are "unlikely" to agree on whether a second question advocating more powers for Holyrood should appear on the independence referendum ballot paper, it has emerged.

Campaigners say a referendum on the UK's membership of the European Union will take place in April - in a single parliamentary constituency.