"At one point Norman Stone and Hugh Trevor-Roper both agreed to record a party political broadcast for UKIP which I had founded and led. Norman was too drunk to record his lines and Trevor-Roper had such dreadful toothache that he could not either. I still have that video with six failed attempts at speech by both of them"

Alex Salmond is pinning his success on the high-risk gamble that the EU will accept an independent Scotland as a full member. It won't