Referendum Special: 09.00-13.00 Reporting Scotland

Welcome to our rolling news coverage of the momentous decisions that have

been taken in Scotland overnight. Scotland has voted No to

independence. We will be bringing you the latest reaction and events

as they happen. For those of you who have just switched on, we will have

a round-up of what has been happening in the last few hours.

Yes, 114,148. No, 139,788. This is the moment the referendum result was

confirmed. 140,000 voters in Fife would take the No support across the

finish line. Soon afterwards, the First Minister accepted the result

and praised the people of Scotland for an 86% turnout, but had this

message for his Westminster counterparts. On behalf of the

Scottish Government, I accept the result and pledged to work

constructively in the interests of Scotland and the rest of the United

Kingdom. The Unionist parties made promises lead in the campaign to

devolve more powers to Scotland. Scotland will expect these to be

ordered in rapid course. -- honoured. The Prime Minister went

further, announcing powers to be devolved to all four nations on the

same timescale as Scotland. Lord Smith of Kelvin, who so successfully

led Glasgow's Commonwealth Games, as agreed to oversee the process to

take forward these devolution commitments, with powers over tax,

spending and welfare agreed by November and draft legislation

published by January. Just as the people of Scotland will have more

power over their affairs, the people of England, Wales and Northern

Ireland must have a bigger say over theirs. This had been a long night

and it would be several hours before the picture would become clear. The

first result came in at 1:30am. Yes, 16,350. No, 19,036. The people of

Clackmannanshire voted No. 54% of them setting the tone for the night.

At the Better Together headquarters the mood was buoyant, no knowledge

of what was come, but confidence nonetheless. For those who supported

us and that great team of volunteers...

APPLAUSE All of the political parties who

work for this outcome, I want to say thank you. Among the first to

declare what the islands, with the Western Isles result coming in

Gaelic. The language might have been different, but the result was the

same. The campaign's chairman appeared to set all. On the streets

of Glasgow, the initial losing streak did not damage the party

atmosphere. Hundreds were in George Square to mark an important day in

Scotland's history. Spirits were high. Dundee was the first to go to

Yes. It was decisive and made the race neck and neck. Then the biggest

moment of the night when Yes took the lead. For five minutes, the glum

faces were gone and it was high fives. The Yes stood at -- Yes

campus stood at 52%. No, 70,039. Feeling almost broken-hearted. I

feel that the British establishment has mobilised the big guns.

Mobilised the bankers, the billionaires, supermarkets, there

might have been corralled into Number 10 together warnings to

frighten people -- to give warnings. The 32 counts went off almost

flawlessly. Apart from in Dundee, where there was a fire alarm. A few

brave police officers guarded the ballot papers. The majority of valid

thoughts cast yesterday by the people of Scotland in response to

the referendum question should Scotland be an independent country

were in favour of No. By the time Mary Pitcaithly made her

declaration, it was long over. For some, it was proving too match.

Shortly after 5pm, the BBC called the referendum with the people of

Scotland rejecting independence. It is the end of chapter one but the.

Read is still to be written. -- full story.

I am joined by our political correspondent. The turnout was

almost 85%. Extraordinary. Other than the phenomenal result, it is a

story of huge turnout. Huge voting engagement, which we knew about and

were expecting a turnout of more than 80%. Some of the smaller

islands like Orkney and Shetland were quite high as well. To have

more than 80% in an election like this shows how important the

Scottish voters saw this, as an issue not of party politics but

about the future of the nation. It has proved a useful and exceedingly

popular project. To bring people up to date, the final result was pretty

decisive for No, but was a much bigger tab each vote then anyone

would have expected -- bigger Yes vote. The last opinion poll which

was done last night, 55 for No and 45 for Yes, which is what the

eventual outcome was. It does not explain the narrowing of the opinion

polls we saw over the last couple of weeks which persuaded the No

campaign to come out and offer those further powers. Had those opinion

poll is not taken, perhaps we would not have got those promises. David

Cameron has said it will mean change for England, Wales and Northern

Ireland as well. To get onto issues we will be discussing through the

morning, we have gone from last night waiting to see if Scotland was

going to leave the United Kingdom to this morning a debate about English

MPs being allowed to cheat England as if it was a separate country. --

treat. The reason David Cameron had to come out and say what he did,

that the other parts of the UK would benefit from Scotland's vote, was

that there were so many Conservative backbenchers promising to derail the

proposals to give further powers to Scotland as a result of this vote,

not least people calling for an English Parliament. David Cameron

was promising to resolve the West Lothian question as a result of that

unhappiness with him going ahead with promising further powers for

Scotland when I had not been a vote on this issue. It is not just

England. The message from the Prime Minister and the Labour Party seems

to be, we hear you, Scotland, we promise we will do what we said. It

was interesting the fact that David Cameron said as much as he did this

morning. There is a little bit of politics involved and the sense in

which David Cameron had to try to seize the agenda and the initiative.

If he did not, he would have left a background for the SNP to demand

more powers. David Cameron had to come out with something quite big

and radical. There is a long way between saying it and delivering it.

There is an awful lot of hurdles to get through, a very tight timetable.

This has to be done in some form by the election, otherwise the SNP will

go into the election and say, those people let you down. He has to bring

the SMP on board and the other three parties and he has made some

promises to civic society as well that might SNP. There is no

agreement even among the Unionist parties on what these accelerated

powers should be. No agreement on the form either. If you look at what

the Liberal Democrats have suggested, talking about federalism,

it has to be something that is balanced. Federalism is one of the

answers that leaves a balanced UK with each constituent part of the UK

having some responsibility and the centre having responsibility as

well, but how you work out what federalism is within the next six

months, I have no idea. It is not just about bringing on board the

SNP. This involves the whole of the United Kingdom. It is no longer just

about Scotland. It is not unreasonable, many Conservative

members of Parliament saying, hold on, we cannot just have some stitch

up between Ed Miliband and David Cameron which is forced through

parliament giving Scotland this, that and the other, we want a say.

Over the last couple of days there were Conservatives saying it was

unconstitutional to give further powers. And that this was a deal

stitched up by the three pro-union parties to try to win the referendum

in Scotland. They have a battle on their hands but David Cameron's

words this morning will have gone some way to try to placate some of

his backbenchers, although not people like Nigel Farage who has

said he thinks that David Cameron's statement is not going far enough

and he is not dealing with the English question. David Cameron was

mentioning the West Lothian question which is the bugbear of lots of

English Conservative MPs and others. It will be interesting to see what

they propose on that because so far no one has, with a firm we to solve

that. Let me bring in two guests. The former First Minister, you must

be delighted. Given what your politics are, are you delighted? I

would not go as far as that, jersey I was delighted. There has been a

political battle and the No campaign has won. Scotland has given the

world a masterclass in terms of how campaigns should be operated and

there was a huge Yes vote. There is a benefit for everyone. We have

discussed this previously. You said you were going to vote No. Did you?

I bought my soul earlier. Yes, I did. -- bore. The biggest success

story was Scotland itself in one of the interesting points that has been

referred to already, the Prime Minister has made a statement, he is

right to go into the breach and make some comment, but one of the most

divisive issues at Westminster is English votes for English laws

because it is not an cancer to the West Lothian question -- answer.

What he might be doing, and I heard Douglas Alexander avoid the

question, I do not think Labour will support that because you would be

the barring 41 Labour MPs from every issue.

Let's say there is a Labour government after the next election

and a Tory majority in England, every time that government wanted to

pass something to do with the health service in England, it could be

blocked? Exactly. But the other point is that it is not just

Scotland's issue. It is a UK issue. What it needs is certainly to honour

the commitment made to Scotland but not to rush at it. The devolution

Bill... Except they are rushing out at! Exactly. Devolution went through

the proper convention and a whole range of people, it went through. It

has to be good legislation and it also has to be about saying, that

can be done properly, but then he has to open up for a sensible debate

on what happens in Wales, England and Northern Ireland. Don't run so

fast at it even if the First Minister is pressing, because at the

end of the day, it is what Scotland needs to go forward, not to get the

three traditional Unionist parties out of a bit of panic-buying. Gordon

Wilson, is that it? Is this it for maybe not the lifetime of people who

were born yesterday, but certainly the lifetime of old buffers like you

and me? I'm glad you associate me with your youth! Think last night I

was disappointed. But as a veteran, bruised and battered from previous

encounters, I had high hopes and low expectations, because I thought this

was a very early referendum and Scotland is still in transition from

being British to being Scottish. And I've taken some heart, and I think

quite obviously the No campaign will be jubilant. They have won and kept

Scotland within the United Kingdom. Look at it the other way. Scotland

has always palled around about 30 to 35% for independence and this

referendum on that basis would have been a gamble. -- pulled around. Now

we are up to 45% and two industrial areas have voted yes. 45% is a

good, solid platform for take-off. Now, I am not suggesting at all that

this will occur quickly. But we are into Harold Macmillan territory.

Remember when he was wielding the axe in desperation in his Cabinet.

He also said politicians can never control the future. It may well be

that it is not the Scots who will be given independence, it is the

English who will propel the Scots into independence. It all depends on

the attitude in the South. The intelligent ones, the statesman,

will probably want to buy Scotland with some powers. There are plenty

of non-statesmen there and people who look at it from a little

Englander point of view. But it is a point that the financier raised in

an article in Financial Times. That's say David Cameron get this

referendum on Europe and England decides to leave the European Union

and Scotland votes substantially to stay. If ever there was a time to

have a referendum on independence for Scotland, it would be then,

because Scotland had decided to go in a completely different --

different direction from the rest of the UK. Clearly nobody is going to

commit themselves to another referendum in our lifetime

generation. Although I noticed a wicked smile creeping on Gordon

Wilson's face when I mentioned that! Well, he has been involved. But

let's take the point of the 2015 elections to Westminster and in the

2016 elections. The interesting point about moving... I mean, the

powers on offer are not about home rule or federalism or devo max. But,

for example, to be provocative, if we had a federal system, maybe

Scotland would like to say to David Cameron in the years ahead, I tell

you what, if you are going to have a debate and a referendum on in and

out of Europe, I tell you what the deal is. The whole of the UK has the

majority for coming out but, by the way, each of the four countries will

have a veto, so we cannot come out of the EU on the back of English

votes alone. What do you mean? So England votes to leave the EU and

Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland or any one of them can say no? It is

a twin devolution, which is not shared, and actually getting to a

point where Scotland has a real say. -- it is between devolution. But

that is what you are saying? England could vote no to the European Union

and Scotland could vote to stay in and veto it? We are at the early

days of debating a future form of federalism. But what would be the

reaction in Scotland, which is proven in opinion polls to be more

pro-Europe, if, in 2017, we decide to exit from the European Union on

the back of English votes? If that was not a basis for further

discussion and strife up here, I don't know what would be. We have to

be more creative. That is why I'm against the Prime Minister

suggesting we have to go with him to implement some powers for Scotland,

we might do a bit of England and their Wales and then Northern

Ireland. This does not make sense in lawmaking but it does open up the

idea that Scotland's strength has been improved as part of this

referendum campaign and we should not be easily led into a situation

of just minor powers when, in fact, there is a bigger price to be had.

Whatever you make of the details of that, this idea of creative thinking

- that would have to come from the Scottish Government as well rather

than banging on all the time about how we need independence. It would

be coming up with some ideas for how to make the UK work better and how

to make Scotland work better within it? The more I look at the sclerotic

United Kingdom, it is beginning to remember Austria-macro hungry before

the dissolution. It is confusing... -- Austria and Hungary. I am sure

the Czechs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire were quite keen to rule as

well. I don't think the British state in its current form is capable

of reformation. That is what I am saying. It is a post-imperial

situation and England controls it, and if you go to a federation, and

heel I disagree, there is no way that the nation of England, powerful

and strong as it is, would ever agree to a veto from the minor

Celtic countries. -- and here I disagree. We are about to guarantee

a macro what Alistair Darling is saying. Where we have a strong

constitutional arrangement and power, but also people want to see

the world in which they live change. They want more jobs, more secure

funding, better education for their children, and, above all,

opportunities for their children and grandchildren. We believe we can do

that in Scotland but we do it best by working with the rest of the UK.

And it isn't just constitutions that we should be concerned with.

Although we have made a clear commitment to the people of Scotland

to strengthen the powers of the Scottish Parliament, and we must

live on that. One of the strengths I think over the last couple of years,

as Joanne said, is that we have shown we can work with other

parties, and, critically, work with many people of no party at all. One

of the most encouraging things about last night was not only the fact

that the turnout was in the high 80s and in some parts of Scotland,

90% of the electorate voted, but people were engaged in this argument

in a way I have not seen throughout my political life. And it does

demonstrate to me two things. As I say, we can work with other

political parties where we agree with them, and where we disagree as

well, and of course we have to argue these points, but where we agree we

should work with each other. But also if you have a popular cause and

a good case to make, then you can infuse people, which is something I

think all the political parties need to learn, our own included. If we

can get people infused about our cause and about how we can improve

and make things better, then we can make sure what we saw last night is

not a one-off. -- people infused. But perhaps it is the start of

integration in politics throughout the UK and in Scotland. It brings me

to my final point. Yes, we have worked together, and the three

political parties have entered an agreement to deliver legislation to

strengthen the Scottish Parliament, and we must deliver that on the

timescale that was agreed, but of course we do have differences with

the other parties on many, many issues, and in just nine months

time, this country will go to a general election to choose the

government for the next five years. And every single one of us needs to

be out there hungry for that change, showing weekend and straight to

people that the change they need for jobs, to make sure we can improve

standards of living -- showing we can deliver to people. You can keep

it going for another nine months at least following these 24 as we move

towards another general election. I believe that not only can we win the

next election and we -- but that we will. I look forward to Ed Miliband

speaking to us later. Thank you. Friends, I want to start off by

paying the warmest tribute to Alistair Darling, because after the

2010 2000 election, you could have taken the easy way out. He could

have decided to take a step back. -- the 2010 election. He played one of

the most important roles in keeping this country together. Alistair,

thank you. Thank you for what you did.

APPLAUSE And I also want to thank every

member of team Labour for what they did. I want to thank Johann Lamont

for the brilliant job she did, I want to thank Jim Murphy, Gordon

Brown, Douglas Alexander, every person who played that role in this

campaign. Let us applaud them today. APPLAUSE

But there is somebody... There is another set of people I want to

think even more than that, and that is you. Because this would not have

happened without you. Thank you for the street stalls, thank you for the

phone banking, thank you for the leaflets, thank you for pounding the

streets in rain and shine. And, friends, you will be able to tell

your children and your grandchildren that you helped keep our country

together, a historic achievement, and let us acknowledge it today.

APPLAUSE Now, what was this a vote for? What

was this a vote for? This was a vote for solidarity and social justice.

This was a vote for our National Health Service, this was a vote for

our welfare state, this was a vote for no because we know we are better

together. And I want to say something also today as Alistair

acknowledged to all of the people who voted yes. This Labour Party is

determined to show over the coming years that we can be the vehicle for

your hopes, your dreams, your aspirations for a better life for

you, a better life for Scotland and a better life for the whole of the

United Kingdom. APPLAUSE

Now, friends, whether people voted no or yes in this referendum, let us

be absolutely clear. This was a vote for change. Change doesn't ends

today, change begins today. Because we know our country needs to

change. We know our country needs to change in the waiters governed and

we know our country needs to change in who it is governed for. -- in the

way it is governed. As Alistair said, we will be leather on strong

powers for a stronger Scottish Parliament, a stronger Scotland, --

we will deliver, and I know all party leaders will meet their

commitments to deliver on that promise.

APPLAUSE And we will also meet the desire for

change across England, across Wales, across the whole of the United

Kingdom. Devolution is not just a good idea for Scotland and Wales, it

is a good idea for England and, indeed, for Northern Ireland, as it

already is, too. And we must also meet the thirst for change in

reforming the whole of our country in who it works for. Because I heard

from people as I went around this campaign people talking about

stronger powers for Scotland, yes, but I also heard people saying, how

can my life get better? How can my son or daughter get a job? How can

we deal with insecurity at work? How can we build a better future for our

children and grandchildren? We know those were the questions people were

asking. They were not just asking questions about the Constitution and

the way our politics works. They were asking about whether our

country works for them, and they were telling us, and they are not

just telling us this in Scotland, they are telling us this throughout

our country, that our country only works for a tiny, elite few at the

top, and this Labour Party knows that must change, and we will change

it. APPLAUSE

Friends, the last few weeks have been about keeping our country

together, the last few months, the two years of this campaign. The next

eight months are about how we change our country together. And you know,

we need a party that can speak for the whole of the United Kingdom, for

every party, for every part of the United Kingdom, for every set of

people in the United Kingdom. There is a party that can do that,

friends. That is the Labour Party. That is our party. And this is our

responsibility in the months ahead - let us be able to tell our children,

to tell our grandchildren that we did not just keep our country

together, we changed our country together. That is our mission, that

can be our achievement. Thank you so much for what you did, now let's go

on and show the people of the whole of the United Kingdom how we intend

to change our country. Thank you very much.

APPLAUSE Well, let's go to the news now.

Thank you very much, it has been a momentous night, Scotland has

decided, and that decision is no. It is clear that the majority of the

people voting have voted no to the referendum question.

Well, the turnout was more than 84% of those registered to votes, the

highest in any UK election since 1951. Glasgow, Scotland's largest

council, voted in favour of independence, with Dundee, West

Dunbartonshire and North Lanarkshire also voting yes. But there were big

wins for the No vote in Aberdeen. The result in Fife took them across

the finishing line, the margin of victory for the Better Together

campaign was 55-45%, bigger than that anticipated by the final

opinion polls. First Minister Alex Salmond conceded defeat but said

Scotland would expect the three main British parties to make good on

their promises of greater powers being devolved to the Scottish

Parliament. Well, we don't seem to have that for

you just at the moment. The Prime Minister said, though, that the

result had been clear and that the debate had been settled for a

generation. David Cameron said, the United Kingdom has come together to

move forward. Well, I will be back later on, back now to Gordon.

Thanks, Rona. We are going to go to Downing Street in a moment, but very

quickly, I wanted to ask you, you were watching Ed Miliband there and

shaking your head as if you were in complete despair. I do not think it

was complete despair, but look, this is an interesting election for the

new leader of the Labour Party, and I respect that. England and Scotland

are politically diverging, so the agenda in England has to be

different from what attracts voters in Scotland, but that said, it is

important to note one thing he said, that they do not all agree on, you

know, the powers, on where the future is holding. I would rather if

Ed said, look, the No campaigners won and they take credit for

victory, but what he has to do is pick Scotland into this wider

constitutional review that is being talked about. For example, my fear

is that in terms of the English votes for English laws, Labour

cannot possibly sign up to that. What we need over the next few

weeks, and I'm not expecting him to do it, but we need to explain to

people, the powers that have been put forward, the timeline, a massive

amount of work has got to be done on that to make sure that we don't just

carry on with these powers knowing that we cannot make the unrealistic

deadlines that have been imposed. I think Ed was in a difficult

position, he has come to Scotland to show solidarity with the party and

the country, that is to the good. But at times he's not well advised

in relation to what is happening, and the mood in, which is so

crucial, showing that degree of Scottish and as bad as vital as we

move forward. All right, we will come back to you in a moment. --

Scottishness that is vital. David, we have heard the Prime

Minister this morning, I do not know if you could hear what Henry was

saying about Ed Miliband, what is the feeling down there? I think the

overwhelming view down here, actually, Gordon, is one of relief.

The Prime Minister came out a couple of hours ago and made his

statement, a lengthy statement in duration and also in content as

well. He is well aware that to some extent one problem has been solved,

Scotland remains within the Union, but he is also aware as well that

everything does change from today. It has been a mentor is night, the

status quo will not continue, there is going to be further

constitutional reform. -- momentous. He said there would have

to be change in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and he addressed

the question of English votes, whereby a lot of Conservative MPs

are worried that if Scotland gets more powers but Scottish MPs still

have the same voting rights, the so-called West Lothian question, and

there is a growing head of steam on Tory backbenches, but as far as they

are concerned, there should be English votes for English matters,

where only English MPs are allowed to vote 1 English matters. What we

have seen, I think, over the past 24 hours is one issue to some extent

resolved, are you Scotland is not going to leave the United Kingdom,

Scotland is not going to be independent. That solves one

problem, but David Cameron knows that he has to see the political

initiative. -- sieze. I wonder, David, whether you feel there is an

awareness there of some of the matter is that I think Henry McLeish

was trying to raise, that there is a possibility that the political

parties are now just thinking, thank heavens that is out of the road, we

have got a general election coming up, and I think what Henry is time

to say is that there may be a lack of sensitivity to realising that

something quite important as happened in Scotland, and while the

matters towards more devolution are important, we are not just straight

into a general election campaign. That is the danger. First of all,

there is huge relief in Downing Street as to what happened last

night. I think there would be some whispering in the Prime Minister's

here, look, it is over, we can move towards the general election, look

at that in the future. I think other people are saying very loudly to

David Cameron, you would ignore what has happened at your Parolo, hence

why I think David Cameron has been keen to say that they will be

bringing up draft legislation before the election. -- at your peril. They

will not get it through the House of Commons and the House of Lords

before the next general election, but in May 2015 whoever is in this

place behind they will have to act on that. That is not to say that he

would ever is in power it is going to be easy for them. As I said,

there are many backbenchers who are unhappy with what is being proposed.

-- whoever is in power. If the Conservative backbenchers in the

House of Commons are a nappy, think about the House of Lords, who are

there to discuss constitutional reform. They will go through it with

a fine tooth comb. There is no guarantee that whatever government

at Westminster would want to get through in constitutional terms,

that the House of Lords would make it easy for them. It is a very

difficult subject, and it could take perhaps longer than some people are

thinking. We are seeing a change, David, in the iconography. I was

almost taken aback by singer Alistair Darling standing in front

of a sign that said Scottish Labour, rather than Better Together. I

noticed that he did not go out of his way to thank the people who were

involved in Better Together from the Liberal Democrats for the

Conservatives. It was entirely aimed at the Labour Party, so suddenly we

are in a different mode now. Yes, we are. Right up until he is ours came

out this morning, it was Better Together on one side and Yes

Scotland on the other. -- until the results came out. We are now in the

run-up to a general election, this contest is over and done with. Party

politics is bound to reiterate in Scotland, as it will in the rest of

the United Kingdom, which is why I think, over the hours and weeks, you

will see English Conservative backbenchers perhaps saying things

that the party leadership would not think is particularly helpful on

constitutional reform. But I think it would be very naive to say that

whatever has happened, all the momentous changes that have happened

over the last 24 hours, that party politics will not play a huge role

in that. Added to that, we are in the run-up to a general election,

which means, A, it is going to be very congregated, B, party politics

will come to the fore in this, and it is whoever wins the general

election in 2015 will have to try and find a way through on this, the

most thorniest of issues. David, thank you very much for now. Andrews

outside the Scottish Parliament at Holyrood. -- Andrew is. Are you

outside or inside? I am inside but outside the parliament, inside the

studio here. Olli Rehn is a little more quiet now, there was an

all-night vigil. -- Holyrood. There is meant to be a Yes rally, whatever

happens, and I'm joined in the studio now by the principal officer

at the US Consulate here in Edinburgh, thank you for joining me.

You were an observer at Ingliston, what have you made of this whole

process and the result? Well, I want to congratulate the people of

Scotland on having conducted one of the most thorough and thoughtful

public debates of our time. I think that the high level of public

interest, the depth of the debate, as well as the extraordinary turnout

that we saw yesterday, real proof that a peaceful and democratic

process can tackle the toughest issues. In the United States, of

course we respect the outcome and we look forward to continuing our close

relationship and ties with the government and peoples of the United

Kingdom. There will be some very relieved people waking up in

Washington, DC this morning, of course, President Obama tweeted

during the week that he hoped the UK would remain strong, robust and

united. Was it right for the president to step in like that? He

had an intervention earlier in the campaign. This is a matter for Scots

to decide, and I think what we saw yesterday, across the board in

Scotland, was a lot of people taking their responsibility very seriously,

weighing up the issues and voting, and that is to be congratulated and

applauded. I say people in Washington will be relieved, because

if Scotland had voted to become independent, Trident would have left

Scottish waters, the Trident nuclear submarines, so the defence

department will be breathing a sigh of relief. There would be a lot of

hypothetical issues to tackle, but the people of Scotland have made

their decision, and we respect that. What did you make of the campaign?

Because of course there Yes campaign have often followed what has

happened in US politics, the tricks of the trade from the first Obama

campaign in 2008 came over, the second campaign too. What did you

make of the process and perhaps the use of these new US election

tactics? As a diplomat, I am not an expert on election tactics, but what

I will say is that we saw an extraordinary level of engagement on

all sides, from the campaigns, from civil society, from grassroots and

people just really wanting to get involved in the depth of the

debate, it was something that we observed on all sides as being

something that all Scots can be proud of. And when you go back to

the US and you tell them about this referendum, I mean, it sounds like

you are pretty impressed by what has happened, particularly the peaceful

way, and I suppose the US will take that message to the rest of the

world that people can conduct a process like this in a very

peaceful, democratic way. I think, as you mentioned, I observed the

vote yesterday in Edinburgh, West Lothian and Fife, and I can

certainly attest to how peaceful and civilised things work. And I think

that certainly with an issue this importance to the people of

Scotland, the peaceful way that everyone conducted themselves

yesterday is really to be very much applauded. OK, thank you very much

for coming in to speak to us, that is it from Holyrood just now, back

to you in the studio in Glasgow. Nicholas Witchell, the royal

correspondent, is outside Balmoral. I imagine they did not have the no

thank you placards nailed up on the trees at Balmoral, but there must

surely be a sense of relief. Yeah, I think that is antennae of Leander

absolutely true, and I think in common with a great many people the

Queen will be glad it is all over. -- that is undeniably and absolutely

true. Privately, she will be feeling relieved that Scotland is not going

to separate from the United Kingdom, that the United Kingdom is not going

to break. I think she would have found that privately very difficult

to deal with, but she will keep their feelings to herself. She would

have accepted the decision which ever way it went, that was her

constitutional duty, but she and her officials will today once the dust

to settle, they will want the politicians do have an opportunity

to say what they wish to say in response to the result, and then

what we expect - we don't know for certain - but at some point later

today there will be a short written statement from the Queen, and I

would imagine it would focus on the fact that this has been Scotland's

decision, I would imagine it would focus on the fact, at the Palace has

said before, a decision for the people of Scotland, but the decision

having been taken now, expressing the hope that the people of Scotland

will come together, we'll move on, and the divisiveness which I think

undoubtedly has been apparent during the campaign, and which I think has

been a cause of some considerable concern to the Queen, she will

perhaps expressed the hope that the divisiveness will be put to one

side, and in Scotland's interests, that Scotland will now be able to

move forward. Thank you very much. What are the

bankers making of it? Is it a case of Armageddon postponed if not

abolished? Well, that very much feels like the case this morning.

Welcome to a very drizzly Edinburgh financial district! Are enjoyed by

the chair of Scottish financial enterprise. How are you feeling this

morning following the concerns of the financial industry had? Many of

the uncertainties that would have been created by a Yes vote we can

forget about. So in that sense it is good to look forward and make sure

we will be doing so within the frameworks with which we are

accustomed. That is part of the UK, the European Union and all of the

stability which comes with that. Having said that, there will be more

of a debate about Scottish powers and the Prime Minister spoke about

it again this morning, and I was very encouraged indeed by hearing

John Swinney talking about how he and his colleagues would play a full

part in that as well. So we think there is a lot to look forward to

and take advantage of. For the financial services sector in the

ticket, are their powers you would be keen to see Scotland get its

hands on? Some of those have already been trailed around income tax. I

think they do allow ministers in the Scottish Government and Parliament

to set some of the parameters within which Scotland can be a competitive

environment within the UK. There is the opportunity there for

differentiation and for Scotland to carve out a particular position as a

very competitive part of the UK, and we think there are business

opportunities in that. Over the last couple of weeks we have heard from a

lot of financial services companies and banks about contingency plans

and they are obviously not needed any more. You get those plans and

have to make them when you are faced with situations you cannot plan for.

I suppose in a sense now we're looking forward to thinking about

what is going on in Brussels and other places now that we have put

this very important decision behind us. RBS this morning saying they are

still hugely committed to their operations in Scotland. That must be

echoed across the financial services community here in Edinburgh?

Absolutely. As I say, had we had a Yes vote, they would have been lots

of questions, but now we can get on with doing what we do best, which is

competing internationally in a very difficult and competitive market.

Thank you. It would have been a very different picture here this morning

and those contingency plans would have kicked in with serious business

meetings going on. But people are going about their daily business as

usual, getting their morning coffee and heading into the office for the

rest of the day. Thank you. Let's get the latest news

from Rhona. Thank you again. Scotland has voted and the decision

has been made, and that decision is no. The margin of victory for the

Better Together campaign was 55% to 45%, bigger than that anticipated by

the final opinion polls. Prime minister David Cameron welcomed the

result and said there was now a chance to change how people across

the UK were governed, and said the three prounion parties at

Westminster would deliver on further pledges of power for the Scottish

Parliament. The First Minister, Alex Salmond, said he accepted the

verdict of the people and called on everyone to do the same. He called

on the three main British parties to make good on their promises of

greater powers being devolved to the Scottish Parliament. The Yes

campaign won in only four local authority areas out of a total of

32. They were Glasgow, Dundee, North Lanarkshire and West Dumbarton show.

Now it is time to go to the weather, and here is the latest.

It is still cloudy, especially further across the East down to

Aberdeenshire and across down to the Borders, and while it is still

cloudy here, we will see brighter cells developing, especially across

the south-west, and across the great Glen area. Temperatures could go up

to 20 or 21 degrees, but widely around the mid-teens. The patchy

rain will spread further towards the East through the evening, allowing

temperatures to fall to around seven or eight with those clear skies, but

elsewhere, 11-13. Still cloudy across the south of the country but

gradually clearing away with that rain, clearing the ball despite the

afternoon. More in the way of sunshine across the central belt but

temperatures in the midst high teens and more of a north-westerly

breeze. On Sunday, fine and dry conditions with high pressure firmly

in place. Lots of sunshine in store and temperatures a few degrees lower

but temperatures still at 15 or 16. I will be back with a longer news

summary later. Thank you. Lots of sunshine! You

can't argue with that! Let's go back to Andrew at Holyrood. Yes, I am

joined in the studio by star of stage and screen and famous yes

supporter Brian Cox. Good morning. Thank you for coming on. What is

your reaction? You must be pretty disappointed? I'm disappointed but

also proud. It is a curious split I have got because I think we have

done incredibly well. The turnout, 87%. The winner is social democracy.

There is no question about that. We have shown that. It is the politics

of the people as opposed to the politics of the parliamentarians,

and I think the political establishment of Westminster is

really, really now under severe scrutiny and has been shown somewhat

wanting. It is a broken thing which needs to be fixed. But I think the

people have shown, and the people of Scotland in particular, have shown

whether it is a yes or no, it is a wonderful example of the Scots

character, a costly yeses were impassioned and this difference and

the noes kept it to their chest in a kind of poker game, and are very

good at that! It is a rather good feeling at the end of it. Excuse me

while I laugh at my sleeve right now! I will believe it when it is

there. The idea... We want to devo max start with and we weren't

allowed to have it. Then Cameron comes up with the three Amigos and

they arrive on their horses with their sombreros and kilts, and they

say, oh, we will give it to you, you have this. And we are going, well,

we didn't ask for it before. He has a problem with his backbenchers

because they are not very happy about it and the Labour Party will

be happy about what Cameron wants to give, so it is a long road. They

want to get a white paper by March. Good luck, is all I can say! What

did you make of the Yes campaign? It was a big movement and went into

every community in Scotland. You saw it. It almost got there in the end?

It did. It did incredibly well because there was an intellectual

rigour about it. People like Pat Kay, Vivienne Westwood, for gods

sake! Rhona Cameron, sorry, rather. It was a fantastic and pain. I have

nothing but praise for the Yes campaign. Those lads and lasses

really worked their butts off, they really did. And I think we have a

lot to be proud of. We galvanise the country. You know, they completely

underestimated it. Underestimated the whole campaign. They totally

underestimated the power of Westminster. -- the power,

Westminster. They were just thinking, those little Scots. People

will remember this for a long, long time to come. So, thinking of the

nationalist campaign, and we were speaking about your own Braveheart

earlier. It is very emotive and kind of hairs on the back of the next

stuff. You a kind of part of that first night you have to that

forward? But I am not a nationalist. I am an independent. It

is not about nationalism, it is about independence. It is not about

playing bagpipes and your painted face. It is about something much

more fundamental than that. It is about self-worth,, about the law and

the working class and the underclass. -- self-worth and self

esteem. This goes straight into the heart of England. We have to leave

it there thank you for coming to speak to us. Back to the studio.

And, well, Hamish Madonna, very briefly, you have been muttering

ever since Ed Miliband was on here. -- Hamish McLaren old. I was very

intrigued with the speech. In the fact that he did not thank the

Conservative partners or the Lib Dem partners and he over gave -- only

gave Gordon Brown the most fleeting of praise. And when you think about

those who have their reputations enhanced by this process. It is

slightly Alistair Darling and certainly Gordon Brown, and I think

Ed Miliband is in a very difficult position. He is there as a Labour

Leader who was not able to carry the Labour vote until he had help from

his predecessor. I know you want to drop a bombshell. But for the

moment, we are going to go to Jeremy Vine. Yes, we are!

Let's look at the margin of victory. The noes on 55% and the yeses on

45%. So a 10% gap - more than the polls were telling us they would be.

And the map has been left decisively coloured. This is Scotland after

this historic referendum. I will colour in the areas which voted

mainly no read, and you can see how many there are. Just four council

areas which went for yes. Glasgow and surrounding, and then up in the

north-east you can see Dundee there in green. Come back to our wall and

you can see the results of that battle ground of the 32 councils.

You struggle to find those that said yes because there are only four. You

see the Yes vote did win in Glasgow. The biggest council with the most in

it. Big councils all went no, though. As did many of the others.

In fact, the first results we had in all went no and it was only Dundee

city which went yes. Our first yes result. Four in total, then. You see

how dramatic the result is when I isolate the yeses and the noes. As

we go down the wall here, they become more convincing. So, the

biggest margins on this side. Orkney and Shetland and also Scottish

Borders and Dumfries and Galloway in Conservative-leaning areas, they

definitely did not want to break up with the UK. So, looking at this

result, it is certainly decisive. Maybe not a whitewash but a definite

and convincing win for the noes. Thank you, Jeremy. What was the

bombshell you wanted to drop? It is not a bombshell but I was listening

to Ed Miliband take this tribalist approach to the next election.

He said the no vote was for social justice. But if you look at the map

and the areas which are better off and had something to lose, then look

at the Green, and there is the working class, the underclass, the

people who do not have. Now, the reality of independence is not the

constitutionality of it, it is a means to an end for people to

improve their lives. This is where the UK has got into trouble. They

will have to devolve assets to building up these areas. If they

don't do that, they are just creating or lighting the fuse for

the next referendum, you might say. And there is only a 5% swing on it.

So they cannot relax. But the people who do have things were those who

think I'll -- on the analysis who voted for that and they will be

deeply disappointed and disillusioned. Watch this space.

Your reservations about Ed Miliband seem to be more, as I understood

you, that you think Labour should be more cautious about signing up to a

speedy process of further devolution and give it a bit more thought? I

think it is important that we are involved in looking at more powers

and there has to be a process and the timeline. To be fair to Ed

Miliband, I greatly admire what he is doing in terms of the politics in

terms of, you know, the energy retail, social justice. That is

fine. But I do think we have to be careful as we embark upon new powers

for Scotland, we have to have good legislation, and at the end of the

day, I want Labour to lead. I don't think they lead during the

referendum campaign and I want them to lead in Scotland, because one of

the things in the aftermath of this campaign is Labour has to be billed

in the aftermath of this campaign is Labour has to be building Scotland

because they have 215 ahead, so they have to combine constitutional

politics with a new false of the that can take us forward. Ed has

part of that but he needs to accept that we need to move forward with

some caution to make sure we get the legislation right. Thank you very

much. It is ten o'clock. Let's go to Rona, who has a summary of the news.

I don't actually have any words in front of me. I think what I'm going

to do, Gordon, is come back down to the shop floor, why don't you carry

on with so more interesting conversation? Sorry about that!

There is a bombshell, no news! What do you make of what you have heard

from the politicians? I was interested to hear what Gordon said

about social justice, because I would like to be able to pick up on

that, when he said the winner of the night was social tomography. I

thought the winner of the night was the night at Kingdom and -- the

United Kingdom and the Better Together campaign. We should not get

away from the fact that we were looking at possibly a two-point gap,

maybe less, and it has ended up with a ten point gap, and that is a very

decisive vote for the Union, and I do not think we have necessarily

focused enough on that. And it doesn't look as if the political

parties involved are going to focus on that, because Alistair Darling

has moved onto Scottish Labour and seems to have ditched the whole

Better Together thing. We will come back in a moment. I think we are

going now to Jonathan Sutherland at the Emirates Stadium. He is with

John Reid. Yes, thank you very much, Gordon, we

are outside the Emirates arena in the East End of Glasgow, where the

last men and women standing in the Better Together campaign have

been... One man who has stuck with us, before he gets the eighth, his

doctor John Reid. First of all, what is the reaction to what has been an

historic night? -- is Dr John Greig. I am delighted that there's been a

clear decision and that we want to stay inside the partnership of the

night at Kingdom. This is a discussion that has been going on

since the mid-1970s. -- the United Kingdom. In a sense, this vote is

the end of the discussion. It is clear, for generations, Alex Salmond

had said, we want to be part of the United Kingdom. In the other sense

it is a beginning, because I hope we can work together, not only the

parties, Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives and the Labour Party,

but I hope the SNP, to have better governance inside the UK. And that

doesn't just affect Scotland, because I think that the Welsh, the

Northern Irish and the English will want to look at their issues as

well, and that is right. We had Johann Lamont, Ed Miliband and

Alistair Darling talking about how change will happen, very much the

watchword. How difficult do you think the negotiations and

discussions between now and the draft legislation will be? There is

still a lot of heat on both sides. I think change will happen, not just

because it has been pledged, though it has, but I think because people

understand in the modern Britain, the modern United Kingdom, you

cannot go on in the centralised way that you did last century or the

century before. So it is an actual process which applies not only to

Scotland but to the other nations. Whether that takes the form of

decentralising in England the or city regions, local enterprise

companies or whatever, it will be discussed. -- in England to the

cities or city regions. On the other hand, there is pretty common cause

among the three major parties about the types of powers they want

devolved to the Scottish Parliament now, including tax raising powers,

control over our own welfare spending. Yes, there are differences

in the details, but we have got a timetable for working it out. The

wider questions, as regards England and Wales and Northern Ireland,

there hasn't been so much thought put into that, there has been some,

so they may be difficult, but change will come, and that is not a bad

thing - that is a good thing, so tonight's vote, sorry, this

morning's vote, we have been up so long! This morning's vote is not

just a means of change in Scotland. I think it is good for the whole of

the United Kingdom. How disappointing is it, from a Labour

point of view, because we seem to be very much into the realms of party

politics, very much a Labour Party thing today, how disappointing is it

that Glasgow was very much Yes? Yes, it is disappointing, but it is

understandable. You see, I may have a minority view, but my view is that

not the whole of the yes vote was from people who wanted a separate

nation. A substantial portion would have been, people who positively

wanted to separate and have independence. But at least some of

them, and I think probably a good little bit, was a protest against

cuts, austerity, the conditions in which people are living. And I

think, in a general election, those boats might have gone to Labour to

get rid of the Conservatives, but here they accumulated around the Yes

flag, and I understand that. -- those votes-macro. Change has to

happen not only in a constitutional sense, but also politicians saying,

right, there are obviously cries of anxiety, anger and frustration here

which exhibited themselves through this support, so how do we apply

ourselves to those issues. Dr John Reid, thank you, up since seven

o'clock yesterday morning, that is it for now from the Emirates arena,

back to you. I think John Reid never sleeps,

extraordinary! Can I pick up on something he was saying there? You

see, we are all talking about more powers, but arguably one of the most

striking things is that most of the traditional Labour areas,

working-class areas, voted yes and that what the Labour Party has not

managed to do is develop a narrative about poverty and deprivation which

breaks out the framework of nationalism. The SNP have co-opted

that, it is all more powers, and more debate about more powers is

still in the framework that the SNP wants to have. Perhaps Gordon Brown

has been trying to break away from that, but you have an awful long way

to go. John Reid makes a lot of points I would agree with, and

Gordon introduced this part of the discussion by talking about the

economic challenges, and three areas which voted very solidly yes, but

this is why I want to see Labour combines social justice and

constitutional change, because that gives Labour an edge. Traditionally

it has been the party... But you need a narrative which has nothing

to do with Scotland against Westminster but is a traditional

Labour narrative, forget all this stuff about Scotland, England, Wales

and Northern Ireland - we are the British Labour Party, this is our

case. Shall justice. We need to return to some basics in terms of

common good. -- this is our case for social justice. Now is the time in

Scotland to return to those very ethical issues which drive the

party, but if we can get the constitutional issue is settled, it

does allow the freedom, because the SNP have dominated, it does allow

the freedom to concentrate on some big issues. But in relation to his

comments, if you consider that in 1999 we had a Scotland Act with new

powers and taxes, then in 2012, we had more powers and taxes, in 2015

we are going to have more powers and taxes - wouldn't it be right to

consider that if we carry on incrementally changing, we are going

to run out of powers at Westminster to devolve? That is why we need a

strategy that looks to the future, in a sense working backwards. The

other side of this, traditional Labour working-class areas voted

yes. Apart from Dundee, the heartland SNP areas voted quite

heavily know. You haven't convinced the Scottish middle classes in these

areas that they might want to vote because they like Alex Salmond and

think he runs a good Scottish Government, but they are not in

favour of independence. I would have taken a different stance on these

matters, but having represented an urban industrial constituency, I

think that what we did not do in the Yes campaign was to fight it on the

north-south divide, the growth of London, the emigration of 40,000

young Scots a year. These are the essential reasons why we require

independence and the economic powers to change the face of the Scottish

economy. You convinced Henry McLeish's traditional vote, but not

your own. There is always a discordance between the two, but

what you are seeking is a majority, and I did not think the balance was

wrong, but that is me getting into trouble again by saying such a

thing! We will leave that for the moment and go to Simon Jack in the

City of London, what is the mood like down there, Simon? Well, as

expected, the City is giving this result and the margin of the result

a pretty warm welcome. Sterling rallied, first of all when the

YouGov poll put the no vote ahead, then Clackmannanshire, which could

have gone either way, when that declared no, we got another spurt. I

can show you a couple of bits, a couple of weeks ago the markets

thought this was a dead Serbs know, and then some opinion polls put it

very close. -- a dead cert no. RBS's plans of moving south of the

border have gone in the bin, there has been a relief rally. But

political uncertainty does remain. The markets are trying to get their

heads around some of the devolution promises that some people are saying

have been hastily assembled. Nowhere near the kind of uncertainty we

would have had about who owns what, what currency would be used, and it

is not just here in the UK that we have seen results resonate. Spanish

bonds are rallying, of course they have gone their own separatist

issues, a lot of Catalans in Scotland for the referendum. So you

are seeing a bounce in Spanish bonds, as the likelihood of them

going through this seems to be receding slightly. Let's go back to

Andrew Kerr in Edinburgh, if we are? Yes, there he is! I do not know

if there has been any reaction from politicians, presumably they are

fast asleep. We have had more consul generals and

film stars around Holyrood at the moment! I can give you a few

Edinburgh vignettes, the all-night vigil was continuing, the yes

supporters were out singing Flower Of Scotland, starting to clear up

some of the bottles after the vigil, and they left pretty dejected, down

at heart. But last night in the capital, I was walking past one pub,

and I heard one man say to another, everybody discussing the referendum

of course, and he was saying, well, even if we don't win, it is a win

for yes. I think he was being quite pragmatic, if there is no

independence, there is the promise of more powers, so he was looking at

it in a pragmatic optimistic kind of way. Further down the road, more

people smoking outside another pub, and a chap said, I heard him say, it

will involve the whole of the United Kingdom, would it? It was

interesting that the chat in Edinburgh was already looking ahead

to what was going to happen in the rest of the United Kingdom and

obviously more powers. In. So maybe a lot of down at heart, downbeat

people today, but some saying it is a win-win situation for yes in that

way. -- more powers for Scotland. David Gold is back in London, any

more reaction there? We starting to get more reaction, as far as Downing

Street is concerned, David Cameron has made his statement, he has gone

up a constituency visit this morning. I think Downing Street

would like his statement to stand, they would like it to be business as

usual here today. As regards other politicians, they have been putting

their ideas in, William Hague has been interviewed and has said that

it is incomprehensible that the so-called West Lothian question

concerning the voting rights and responsibilities of Scottish MPs can

not be looked at if you are looking at more powers for the Scottish

Parliament. He has been charged by David Cameron at looking at how they

will bring these extra powers in, not just for Scotland but for the

rest of the United Kingdom as well. Other Conservative backbenchers have

perhaps been less helpful to David Cameron. Owen Paterson, the former

Environment Secretary, has made it plain he is very unhappy with what

the three UK party leaders promised to Scotland before the referendum.

He, I think, like many others, is quite concerned. He has gone as far

as calling for a recall of Parliament to discuss what has

happened. I don't think that is likely, certainly Downing Street are

not in the mood to accede to that kind of demand. Another Conservative

MP, Bernard Jenkin, the Essex MP, pretty well-known as not a friend of

David Cameron, has again said if Scotland is going to get more

powers, England must get more powers, and the whole question of

the Barnett formula, the money that Scotland gets, and also the voting

rights of Scottish MPs have got to be addressed. As far as Downing

Street is concerned, they would like to say, look, nothing to say here,

we have resolved this question, we would get on the process of

governing. Somehow I don't think a lot of Conservative MPs are going to

let that happen. Thank you. Now we have lots of

decimals and fractions! A resounding victory for the No campaign last

night and the first place to declare was Clackmannanshire. You can see

46% yes and 54% no. A huge turnout, which was the second story the

night. And then it was in Orkney and

Shetland, which voted no. This was one of the biggest of the night.

Difference is clearly more than 2/1 there. The tightest no vote of the

whole evening was in Inverclyde. You can see it went red, which means it

voted no to independence. But very tight. Just over 100 votes between

the 2 of them. If we go to the Western Isles, it is this one here.

Obviously represented by an SNP MP and an SNP MSP. Very much

disappointment in that camp with that result. That result was

followed closely by West Dunbartonshire. As you can see here,

it was one of only four on the board which went to the yes camp. The

first one which went to the yes camp way was Dundee. You will see there a

pretty resounding victory. It was called Yes City by the yes camp. Not

quite as higher turnout as some other areas but better than the last

Scottish elections and general election as well. So, what happened

when we go to Stirling? I have just lost it on the board! And you will

see the result in Stirling was a pretty resounding 60% for the no

camp. So the no camp very pleased with the amount and number of people

they got out. So, if we go to Angus, you will see a very strong

representation at Holyrood and Westminster. But disappointment for

the Yes campaign again. If we go to Aberdeen, city of granite and oil,

what did it think of the question on the ballot paper? Should Scotland be

independent - yes or no? The turnout, about the same, 82%. And if

we go to one of the areas which the yes camp had been hoping they would

gain, you will see it as a green, which means it is green for yes.

Just 5000 indifference. Quite tight. About the same as some of the polls

over the last ten days or so. Now, if we look at South Lanarkshire,

that is the constituency which also has the Conservative David

Mundell's area in it, and that is perhaps why in an area in the north

of Lanarkshire, some quite high deprivation in South Lanarkshire, so

a different territory. A huge disappointment for the yes camp when

it came to Perth and Kinross. But by 5am, it was the turn of Glasgow, the

biggest constituency in Scotland, and you can see it has gone green.

It went in favour of independence but a pretty low turnout - just 75%.

The second biggest constituency in Scotland is Edinburgh, and you can

see from the red colour that it voted no to independence. The

turnout was about the same as other regions -80 4%. So, if we take you

back here. -- 84%. If we go back to Fife, you will see that the result

there on an 84% turnout to this number of votes. That was a

bellwether seat. It has Gordon Brown's backyard but also SNP

representation. It voted no to independence. And so if we show you

in size of constituencies, if we look there, you can see on our map

that Glasgow, Edinburgh, Fife, South Lanarkshire, North Lanarkshire, only

four of those voted yes. Of the smaller, all of those voting no to

independence. We will take you to our very final total and you will

see by how much the yes camp won. The no camp was shot by just 200,000

votes. And that is how it looked. -- was shot.

Thank you. Stephen Duff has been in Aberdeen Harbour! While we have been

stuck in here! Aberdeen voted decisively no. Aberdeen Harbour busy

as ever this morning. It would have been continuing to be busy,

independence or not. It would have continued to pump oil and gas from

Scotland whatever the result. Some reaction from the company's

representatives. Roy Lancaster UK saying it looked forward to

continuing to work with the Scottish and UK governments. -- oil and gas

UK. It is sticking to its claim which was very controversial during

the referendum campaign, that they could be as much as

12-24,000,000,000 roles of oil left in the North Sea. Again, happy that

the uncertainty is now over. -- 12 to 24 billion barrels of oil. It

said it was looking forward to the wood report. Aberdeen, we know parts

of it, the middle-class, wealthy parts, voted no. Perhaps people in

the oil and gas industry were looking to their future.

Thank you, Steven. Katrina Renton has been talking to an actor. Beyond

devastated. Thought it was the chance for something special and

that we could create something special with a grassroots movement.

But I think on our side the biggest thing in the debate was the

timetable, which we have no idea what it is, and if it is not

delivered, we will see the same people used it up for yes in that

square again. And the people on no still believing we will get these

extra powers. I don't think it is the end. It can't be. Westminster

elite have been draining this country dry for so long. So I hope

we can continue. I mean, the involvement and the people who had

never even registered before voting. Hopefully this isn't the end of

this. But there are other ways of looking at it. Basically yes has

made up so much ground and maybe is this the beginning of a movement? I

believed that. I was beyond devastated. I walked away from it

but those younger people, I have just turned 30, so... If Westminster

worked, if Britain worked, then we wouldn't be in this situation. But

we will continue to hold them to account until it works. And is that

the thing? Because basically we have heard about all these powers for

Scotland but if this doesn't happen and you don't get a pretty good

deal, I presume there will be a lot of pressure? It is not about a deal.

It is not about us getting better. We just want to look after

ourselves. I feel compelled to go back to George square because this

is what I felt and I genuinely felt when I came through there tonight

when I thought we were going to win it. The atmosphere was incredible.

Hopefully, if we don't get what we were promised, we will be back

there. At, again... -- but. And it is like being handed things rather

than owning things? Exactly. Whether you voted no or yes doesn't make you

any less a Scot. I have to accept that. Maybe we like being handed

stuff. I want to take complete control of that. What I would would

like to see if they timetable on how much will we have left because I

think it would be miraculous now it has been handed back to the UK.

Let's go back to another of our correspondents. Thank you for

joining me, Alistair. Can I get the Law Society's reaction to the vote

last night? The Law Society, prior to the vote, was strictly

nonpartisan and continues to hold that position, and we are glad the

decision has been made and the polls has happened, and now what

we're looking forward to is working with the Westminster government

other parties and creating the new Scotland which is clearly required

and demanded, given the result of the poll. Before we get to the

future, can we just focus on the past a bit? What did the referendum

do the business, do you think? We heard some scare stories but what is

your story? The referendum clearly had a big impact on business.

Whenever there is uncertainty of outcome, currently being a major

factor, then business people tend to derisk the situation, which means

they don't do anything, and we started to see commercial business

is putting plans on hold from April, and then after the government --

YouGov poll came out, things slowed down dramatically and we started to

see conditions come into offers which made the whole offer he

conditional on there being a no vote. Looking at the new powers,

what do you make of what is on offer? You will be looking at that

with interest and how this plays, Holyrood, might be changing in the

future. -- this place. What we would want encourages a wide discussion

and consultation with the people of Scotland so we can work together to

craft what the changes will look like and what the impact of those

changes will have. The legal profession in Scotland has a great

reputation for working with them. We did it when the Scottish Parliament

opened in 1999, so why can we not do it again? And we would very much

welcome to be part of that discussion and to work with

interested parties on creating something which meets the needs of

the people and is progressive and takes us forward as a nation. If

there had been a Yes vote, drafting would have started on a new written

constitution for Scotland. Do you think that is still lacking in the

UK at the moment? We are looking at the UK framework and I was speaking

to the political editor of the Daily Record, and it is almost a front

page, The Vow from Westminster. I don't think we have to have that to

be a successful country going forward, a constitution. It isn't

the critical factor but obviously there is a demand from the people of

Scotland for change and the status quo is no longer sit -- acceptable,

and if that future looks like having a written constitution involved,

then, again, the Law Society would be delighted to be involved in that.

We have the skills and our membership to be involved and it is

the sort of thing the Society and lawyers in the Society should be

involved in. You said they took a neutral view on independence but

thinking of membership, you think of lawyers as being fairly

establishment and traditional-type figures, but can you tell me perhaps

what the overall feeling was? There is a sense you are very much part of

the establishment? For those living at it from a

commercial point of view, because of the on certainty, the continued

uncertainty that a yes vote would bring, there was anxiety in terms of

their business, that clients would have reduced activity and that would

have a knock-on impact on their business. So from the commercial

point of view, having certainty, the sooner the better, helps our

businesses, and that was a major factor in our thinking. Thank you

very much for coming in from the Law Society of Scotland. Back to you,

Gordon, in Glasgow. Look, I am very aware that some of

you may, for whatever reason, not have been following very closely

what has gone on. Perhaps you've been on night shift, perhaps you've

just switched on the television, so let's just pause for a moment and

remind ourselves, at least Kevin will remind us, of what the story is

of what has happened during the last few hours.

Yes, 114,148. No, 130 9000, 788.

This is the moment when the referendum result was confirmed.

140,000 voters in Fife would take the no support across the finish

line with the votes still to count. Soon afterwards, the First Minister

accepted the result and praised the people of Scotland for an 86%

turnout, but he had this message for his Westminster counterparts. Gold

-- I pledge to work constructively in the interests of Scotland and the

rest of the United Kingdom. Secondly, the Unionist parties made

vows to devolve more powers to Scotland. Scotland will expect these

to be honoured rapidly. The Prime Minister went further, announcing

powers being devolved to all four nations on the same timescale to

that being offered to Scotland. Lord Smith of Kelvin, who so successfully

led Glasgow's Commonwealth Games, as agreed to oversee the process to

take forward these devolution commitments with powers over tax,

spending and welfare all agreed by November and draft legislation

published by January. Just as the people of Scotland will have more

power over their affairs, so it follows that the people of England,

Wales and Northern Ireland must have a bigger say over there is. --

theirs. The first result came in at 1:30 with someone keen to hear the

result by phone. Yes, 16,350. No, 19,000...

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 19,036. The people of

Clackmannanshire boated no, 54% of them, setting the tone for the

night. -- voted. At the Better Together headquarters, the mood was

buoyant, no knowledge of what was to come, but confidence nonetheless. To

those who supported us and a great team of volunteers, that is you...

All of you, all the political parties who have worked for this

outcome, I want to say thanks from the bottom of my heart, thank you

very much. Among the first to declare where the islands, with the

Western Isles' results coming initially in Gaelic... The language

might have been different, but he was old was the same, still nothing

for the yes side. The face of the campaign chairman appeared to say it

all. On the streets of Glasgow, though, the initial losing streak

didn't dampen the party atmosphere. Hundreds were in George Square to

mark an important day in Scotland's history. The spirits here were

nothing but high. Dundee was the first to go to yes, decisive, making

the race neck and neck. And then the biggest moment of the night when yes

took the lead. For a full five minutes, the glum faces were gone,

and it was high fives all around. The yes camp stood at 50.2% of those

counted. But then it would crumble. No, 37,000...

No, 62,700... No, 70,000...

Two clear messages coming out of it. Firstly, the turnout suggests

people in Scotland really have found their voice, and secondly, with over

1 million people voting at this stage for independence, many of

those who will have voted no to independence because they believe it

would deliver stanch powers for the Scottish Parliament, there is a big

appetite for change. -- deliver substantial powers. The counts went

of almost flawlessly, except in Dundee, where a firearm twice forced

the evacuation of the counting hall. -- a fire alarm. The majority of

ballots cast by the people of Scotland, in response to the

question, should Scotland be an independent country, were in favour

of no. The chief accounting officer's moment was stolen. By the

time she made her declaration, it was all long over. And for some, it

was proving to be just too much. Shortly after five o'clock, the BBC

called the referendum with the people of Scotland rejecting

independence. It is the end of chapter one, but the falls Tory is

still to be told. Kevin Keane reporting. We have been

joined by commentator Gerry Hassan, you don't get to do the commentating

until you show us the T-shirt. What does it say? Yes to the sum of

independence, it is a last wear before I throw it away or put it in

the attic -- summer. I was at an all-night with people who have been

making a marvellous contribution to this debate. I want to put it to

you, maybe the thing that strikes me most is that all the traditional

working class Labour areas, and perhaps we can include Dundee in

that, they all voted yes, perhaps Inverclyde comes into that, a very

narrow no. All the traditional heartlands of the SNP voted no,

sometimes by thumping majorities. It is completely paradoxical. Yes, it

is paradoxical in terms of party politics, but not beyond that. One

of the defining factors of the referendum has been about insiders

and outsiders. The less state as you have in society, the more likely you

were to vote yes. -- status. That map looks like it has held quite

significantly. You have to go to Dundee and Glasgow and elsewhere,

where there are lots of divisions in nose, but it looks like one of the

stories of the night, I think. -- in those. Almost a clasp vote. Yes,

people have said that, that it is a class issue. I think that is a bit

one-dimensional. We don't want to go back to the 1970s... People have

been saying, even in more affluent areas, it is the less affluent bits

of those areas that have been voting yes. That is right, and it is

something about what people feel they have got at risk what they feel

they can gain from the potential social change of independence. A lot

of people scared of the unknown, and we have heard about the Law Society,

there is institutions of Scotland were scared of things changing,

scared of instability. Another way of looking at that, Gordon, it may

well be that people who see themselves as being deprived have

gone to vote yes, but another way of looking at it is that the middle

classes of Scotland came out and said to you and your politics, we

are just not having it. I think that is perfectly true, that is my own

analysis of it, and that is why they should have been a bad economic

presentation, so the middle classes could see that there would be a

benefit. Take one example - 40,000 young people emigrate from Scotland

every year, a large proportion of them are children from middle-class

families. You are finding that they have to leave Scotland in order to

get a job or a better job. If we had made that pitch, it may well be that

the grandparents could have come into play. The other thing that we

can note is that a large number of those who are voting no are of my

generation, and it is the older people in particular, still British

in some ways, and that is a passing phase. Gordon, thanks for that for

the moment. In Edinburgh, it is raining, we have better talk to

collector before she is soaked. What is the mood among the financial

types you have talked to? It is interesting to see people heading

into work, getting on with their business, which started earlier

today. I am in Millennium Square just off Lothian road, surrounded by

big financial institutions, to my left Scottish Widows, to my right

Clydesdale Bank, and beyond that and down the road it is, of course,

Standard Life, who have been at the centre of the referendum campaign

because they came out early on talking about the dangers for them

as a business of a yes vote, and there seems to be a collective sense

of relief. There were significant companies that came out in saying

that if there was a yes vote, it wouldn't damage business, that

Scottish financial institutions would carry on business as usual,

and most notably Aberdeen Asset Management. Most organisations will

be relieved because of the significant concerns they had around

currency and who would be regulating them in an independent Scotland,

that has been removed. Those contingency plans do not need to be

put into place that people have been working on over the last weeks and

months. Looking at the markets, a pretty steady start to the FTSE, and

on the currency market the pound took a real bounce this morning,

probably off the back of the result and even the predicted results that

we saw last night. The pound gaining in value, so it seems to be that the

business community and the financial institutions here in Edinburgh are

relieved. The instability has been removed. We have talked a lot in

this campaign about the fact that business do not like instability,

insecurity, and with the bat, it does seem that businesses would be

getting on as usual and perhaps even going forward with growth plans that

we may have seen put on the back burner over the last weeks and

months while we were waiting for this result to be announced. It will

be interesting to see in the next weeks and months the growth plans

that businesses come out with, whether it is physical extensions or

growth plans in terms of finance and staff. We have heard this morning

from RBS, saying that they are committed to their Scottish

operations, and I would imagine that most other institutions that had put

out contingency plans will do the same thing this morning. Again,

reassuring the markets that they will continue as normal and are

committed to working in Scotland. And, Colletta, is it your sense that

banks and financial institutions, were they exaggerating, do you

think, what could have happened if there was a yes vote? Or would there

have been... Do you think they genuinely believed it could have

been cataclysmic? I don't think it is a case of exaggeration, but

contingency plans have to be put in place for any kind of eventuality,

to banks are used to making that kind of contingency planning. I

imagine they will be doing something similar in the bun up to the UK

collection, now that we are seeing these implications around UK

membership of the EU. -- in the run-up. Banks will be putting in

those contingency plans, as will other business organisations. It is

not that they exaggerated the claim, it was a serious issue around the

issue of regulation. It may have been the case that the UK regulator

would have forced those banks and institutions to move to the rest of

the UK where their remaining customers are put up thankfully,

that is not an issue they have to contend with now or think through

all work through. They can happily remain in Scotland. That is a relief

for workers heading into work this morning, to know their jobs are

secure and that the institutions and the registered offices will be

staying here too. All right, Colletta, thank you. For the last 24

hours, the right to vote is not the only thing that people have been

queueing for. Here is Jane Lewis. Momentous overnight in Scotland, as

it was put to the vote, but if you thought these guys were interested

in that, not a bit of it! They want to get their hands on the new iPhone

6, they have been queueing since Thursday lunch time. Let's have a

word with a couple of the guys who are desperate to get their hands on

the new gadget. Just tell us where you are from. I am from Stirling.

You know there was perhaps a more important event taking place

overnight in Scotland, how do you feel about the outcome?

I am pleased for the vote because I am a no-photo. But half the country

has not got their own way, so hopefully we can get back together

and get on with life. -- voter. I am happy with the way things are right

now but we will see in the future. Let's have a word with you. You were

queueing, desperate to get your hands on the new iPhone macro. --

iPhone. I was up watching events on the BBC and now I am down here. I

voted before I came. I see the outcome as a victory for the workers

here. I think the turnout shows people are passionate about how they

feel and we can't ignore it because the vote was pretty split. I have to

ask you in terms of the future, do you think the Westminster government

will give Scotland what it wants? More powers, for example? I

absolutely do think that. I don't think we can ignore the 1.5 million

who came out asking for independence. And I really believe

we will get the powers we need. People will want to know away from

the referendum, why are you queueing to get your hands on an iPhone 6? It

is quality! I lost the here to collect it! -- I must be here. What

about you? I told my wife that if the vote went the right way, I would

get her an iPhone! Probably half the country are a bit grumpy this

morning, waking up with the vote not on their way!

Now, before you think we have become part of Tim Coutts' advertising

strategy, we should remind you other communications products are

available! What you think overall? I use a prized by this? No. I actually

called the result two months ago and called it 36-54 -- 46-54. I didn't

buy it because it involved people voting where there had not been

political organisation and made mobilisation for generations in

terms of the turnout. Interesting that the turnout wasn't as high in

Glasgow as people were expecting? It is the lowest in all Scotland but it

comes from a 41% turnout in 2011. This is quite good to good for

Glasgow standards. But also the hope of the Yes campaign was that if they

could get these people who don't usually vote, they would vote yes.

That belief doesn't seem to have been very well founded. Yes, and we

have contradictory evidence on that. What we did know, and I commissioned

the research on this with Ipsos MORI, we knew that missing Scotland

saw the referendum differently and that group despise politicians and

the political class and things the right political judgement is not to

vote, and we can all understand and see the reasons for that, but they

judged the referendum is different. They had a stake in the referendum.

And we didn't ask them whether they were going to vote yes or no. I was

took the view that the democratic moment of this was much or as much

important as yes /no. It is a huge, huge moment and it has left a

political challenge for the parties who have left these people behind.

I'm curious as to what you would do if you were running... We have David

Cameron saying, we hear you. He is making Walsall 's commitments about

more powers to the Scottish Parliament. If you were Alex

Salmond, you want to be in those discussions. -- making all sorts of

commitments. Would you be saying, I want to do this, that and the other?

Not entirely. I think the SNP and Alex Salmond have to be receptive to

what the Scottish people might want. We don't know what the Scottish

people want. That is the first problem. And secondly, the thing is

to really call upon the Unionist parties to deliver. And say, well,

what are these powers? And be willing to co-operate with them.

Wouldn't you want to be Justin there to be part of the discussion?

Because the danger for the SNP is that this is what will happen next,

and, again, the SNP would not have been part of the process? The

problem for the SNP is, can it be seen not to be involved in the

discussion? But within those discussions, you can adopt an active

or passive position. And I would have adopted a passive position,

just saying, well, independence is not on the agenda and the Scottish

people have decided that for the time being. We are open to

suggestions for real powers. And then I would have specified the

economic aspect and pushed the challenge back to the Unionist

parties. They made the vowel and the promises -- they made The Vow and

the promises, and it is now time to move into the attack. That is a

tactical issue. One thing that Alex Salmond has is great tactical

Knauss. -- tactical moves. It will be interesting to see which way the

Scottish Government turns. I shall be an interested observer. So, Alex

Salmond, good tactician, lousy strategist! I never said that! That

is the implication. I have let you say that and I will have to deny it

completely! I am curious as to what you make of some other things about

Labour. It is all very well going for more powers but isn't the

message of this that Labour has not managed to, if you like, break from

nationalism? It has not managed to tell its own traditional supporters

a story about deprivation and poverty which breaks out of this

whole human about powers of the Scottish Parliament and is actually

a story about being part of Britain? I thought you got onto a very

interesting to rain there, Henry. He used the phrase "missing story".

That is very apt. They have not managed to come together to get that

intelligence into a coherent strategy and Labour have missed a

strategy on this. Ever since the SNP became a permanent force in Scottish

politics, really. You could see Gordon Brown in that speech he made

the other day was trying to formulate this, but it does seem

rather extraordinary, that, as you say, after years and years, Labour

is largely prepared to argue with the Scottish Nationalists on to rain

which is staked out by the Nationalists and not Labour? Yes.

There are so many strategic mistakes when we are talking about strategy

and tactics. What they got the referendum down to, Labour, was two

versions of constitutional change. That could have worked for yes

because it made all could have made the argument that this was the

clearer line and strategy for change. There is an obviously the

macro strategy on this question, which is to say, the UK is broken

and Scotland as a battering ram. -- there is an obviously Labour

strategy. Obviously large parts of them detest the nationals and that

works against their own judgement. And also it was Labour in the 1980s

and 90s which posed as the party of Scotland which would protect

Scotland against the nasty Tories. Yes. And the SNP were able to step

into their shoes and say, hey, folks, we are the general article!

Exactly. There was always a danger. What it created was a popular front

of the mind of the Labour SNP and the Lib Dems and post the national

question, and that combined with the fact that Labour did not have a

social justice strategy, Labour did not know what to do with it and did

not have intelligence beyond, basically, it was going to kill the

national stone dead, which is actually a ridiculous argument. So

where do we go from here? You see, the danger for Labour is this. The

next thing that happens if the general. They do very well. -- the

next thing that happens is the general election. May 2016 it will

be the Scottish elections. They know the SNP reach their maximum support

so they can afford to be complacent. That is right, and we have already

been here before. In 2010, Labour won well. They pulled over 1 million

votes and then miss read and overinterpreted that result and

played the same strategy into 2011. -- mis-read. There was the 16 point

lead and the SNP landslide. It might not be the same landslide but they

cannot over read 2015 if they win. Thanks for now. Before we get into

deep, let's have a look at what has been happening overnight in

pictures. Yes, 114,148. No, 139,788. This is

the moment when the referendum result was confirmed. 140,000 voters

in Fife would take the no support across the finish line with votes

still to count. Soon afterwards, the First Minister accepted the result

and praise the people of Scotland for an 86% turnout. But he had this

message for his Westminster counterparts. On behalf of the

Scottish Government, I accept the result and I pledge to work