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Matthew Parris

How Alex Salmond could lose his referendum and still wreck the United Kingdom

‘No’ won’t be Scotland’s final answer. Not unless the unionist parties get ready now

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

8 February 2014

9:00 AM

From a kind of torpor about this year’s Scottish referendum, Lord Lang of Monkton has roused me.

You may remember Lord Lang as Ian Lang, a Scot who as MP for Galloway served Margaret Thatcher and John Major as a minister, under the latter both as Scottish Secretary and then President of the Board of Trade.

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