"In a typically badly written, inelegant column in The Times yesterday, Scotland’s arch-Unionist was reduced to criticising Yes supporters for being selfish & not wishing to share Scotland’s bounty with the rest of UK."

"Try telling the 400,000 English residents who have made a rewarding life in Scotland that this isn’t a country which likes to share, or the many others currently enquiring about property north of the Border."

"Supporters of the Union know that over the next few years the numbers of English migrants in Scotland will rise sharply, and mainly because they think they and their children will be safer here."

"THE campaign to portray Scottish nationalism as essentially nasty & divisive was a feature of the first independence referendum, & in recent weeks this message has become more insistent. Unionists know that the old economic scaremongering has been rendered meaningless."

"Measured against Cummings/Johnson/Gove axis, Scotland looks a mature & self-confident state, comfortable in its own skin, content to disagree without rancour. It’s what FM Sturgeon projects, no matter your opinion of her govt. It’s driving her political enemies round the twist."