Scotland panic over? New poll shows No camp back in the lead

Survation poll shows a six-point lead for No: has Alex Salmond's Yes campaign peaked too early?

Alex Salmond and Alistair Darling
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To the undoubted relief of Westminster's three musketeers - David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg - the latest poll on Scotland's voting intentions in next Thursday's independence referendum shows the No campaign with a clear, if modest, six per cent lead.

The three party leaders, who headed north of the border earlier today to campaign against a split in the Union, can't claim any credit. The Survation poll for the Daily Record was largely completed before the trio decided that the traditional Wednesday shouting match in the Commons - Prime Minister's Questions - was less important than saving the kingdom.

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is a former BBC lobby correspondent and Labour press officer who is watching the polls for The Week in the run-up to the 2015 election.