Indyref: Campaigns Intensify With 10 Days To Go

It’s the final full week of campaigning in the independence referendum.

Just a day after a YouGov poll for the Sunday Times suggested that the ‘yes’ campaign has taken a narrow lead, those opposed to independence are stepping up their campaigns.

Labour leader Ed Miliband will today declare that trade union fighting to keep the UK together are campaigning in the true traditions of social justice and the Labour Movement.

He’ll tell the TUC general council dinner in Liverpool that members will play a key part in winning the argument for Better Together in the final days.

Elsewhere, Jim Murphy will take his 100 towns in 100 days tour to Edinburgh where he’ll be joined by George Robertson, the former Secretary of NATO.

Meanwhile, Ed Balls and Margaret Curran will be talking to voters in Aberdeen, while Gordon Brown and Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont will take part in a ‘no’ rally in Midlothian.

On the ‘yes’ side, the First Minister says independence will bring huge financial opportunities to Scottish farming and rural Scotland.

Alex Salmond claims Scotland could have received around €3.5 billion euros in additional European funding if it had been independent during the most recent Common Agricultural Policy talks.

On the campaign trail, Nicola Sturgeon say  that a Yes vote is the only way to secure the status and funding of Scotland’s NHS when she is joined by the leader of Plaid Cymru Leanne Wood in Glasgow this morning.

Ms Sturgeon and Ms Wood will focus on the impact Westminster spending cuts could have on devolved budgets.