Stephen Flynn: “We've been treating it a bit like somebody who has inherited our grandparent's mansion and doesn't do the upkeep.”

There is no shortcut. There is no political wheeze that can change the task ahead of us.

The SNP, as far as I'm concerned, is the pressure group for independence.

It can’t have been an easy summer for the Secretary of State for Scotland losing his title as the most unpopular politician in Scottish Labour.

But let’s make sure that power and that decision making is taken by the Scottish people and they have the opportunity to do so in an independence referendum.