We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

On top of that, we have a healthy and stable economy and an end to the boom and bust that characterised the Tory years.

Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.