Farage goes to Scotland: just what the No camp doesn’t need

YouGov poll puts No campaign back in front: but Farage is a risk and Cameron is in the soup

The Mole

Nigel Farage, the Ukip leader, has denied he is being "incendiary" by going to Scotland today to tell Scottish voters to vote No next Thursday. But the fear is Farage’s intervention north of the border could make the increasingly nasty independence debate even nastier.

Farage, who is used to receiving public abuse, said on Radio 4’s Today programme: “I have absolutely no intention of being incendiary at all. I am going to make a point [that] this referendum has been called an independence referendum... but if you actually look at it, it's not. Mr Salmond... is saying let's sign up for the EU state.”

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