Alistair is the Darling of the Tory conference

On the day the Chairman of the No campaign - Labour MP and former Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling - attends the Tory conference in Stirling, the Scottish National Party have highlighted Mr Darling's attacks on Tory economic policy and Tory attacks on Mr Darling's policy to illustrate that Scotland would be better off deciding our own policy in the Scottish Parliament. Mr Darling has called Tory Westminster economic policies as "utterly mad" and a "huge gamble", and said George Osborne has no credibility - while Mr Osborne has accused Mr Darling as Chancellor of "not being honest", and referred to him as "politically a dead man walking".

SNP Westminster Leader and Campaigns Director Angus Robertson MP said: "Alistair Darling being feted at the Tory conference exposes the fundamental flaw at the heart of the No campaign - Labour and the Tories are joined at the hip in trying to stop independence, but the record of successive UK governments shows that Westminster isn't working for Scotland. “Mr Darling says that Tory Westminster policy is a 'huge gamble' that is doing 'immeasurable damage' - while the Tory Chancellor George Osborne said that Mr Darling was a 'dead man walking' as Chancellor who wasn't being honest, and David Cameron thought that Alistair Darling had no credibility and should be sacked!"

Continuing Mr Robertson said: "To argue that Westminster knows best is a farcical position given this record - the Tories and Labour are welcome to each other in the No campaign. “In speaking to his new Tory friends, Alistair Darling cannot claim with any credibility that Scotland's economic future is best served by Westminster taking decisions on jobs, taxation, spending and investment, rather than our own Scottish Parliament. In attending the Tory conference, Mr Darling is proving that the No campaign prefers bad Tory government from Westminster to good government with independence."

Concluding Mr Robertson said: "Scotland has huge economic strengths, and we already more than pay our own way, as the official figures prove. But we could and would do so much better as an independent country, with the full economic powers other nations take for granted. And only by voting Yes can the people of Scotland get the government we vote for every time."