Leaders Cameron, Clegg and Miliband scramble to Scotland to save the Union

Prime Minister David Cameron said that he would be ‘heartbroken’ if Scotland voted for independence.

17:57 10 September 2014

As the independence referendum looms, major party leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron have united in Scotland to save the union.

Campaigning in Edinburgh, the prime minister said: “I love my country more than I love my party.” He came to Scotland on the same day as Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Cameron added that he would be “heartbroken” if Scotland voted for independence.

"I care hugely about this extraordinary country, this United Kingdom that we've built together.

"I would be heartbroken if this family of nations that we've put together - and we've done such amazing things together - if this family of nations was torn apart."

Explaining that the result of referendum is irreversible, he appealed:
"Because it's a ballot, I think people can feel it's a bit like a general election, that you make a decision and, five years later, you can make another decision, if you're fed up with the effing Tories, give them a kick and maybe we'll think again.

"This is totally different to a general election. This is a decision about not the next five years, it's a decision about the next century."

Cameron, in his effort to save the union, said that a No vote would trigger “a very rapid and very comprehensive move” to ensure Scotland had greater devolved powers.