Scots may have to take to streets to achieve independence, says Alex Salmond

Alex Salmond says Scots may have to take to the streets to achieve independence, with Boris Johnson set to reject a second poll.

“Peaceful street demonstrations” may be necessary to force the prime minister to act, he warned.

The former SNP first minister, who has enraged Nicola Sturgeon by setting up a new party, said he was willing to share a stage with her, but did not mean forgiveness.

“No. I’m not saying forgive. The word forgiveness is yours not mine. Some things are bigger than personalities though,” he told Times Radio.

And, on the charge that his past behaviour towards women made him unfit for office, Mr Salmond: “I am not going to say a word in this campaign, denigrating either the SNP or indeed any other party. I’m not rising to any bait whatsoever.”

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Ruth Davidson, the former Scottish Conservative leader warned that the country was about to be consumed in “this Sturgeon/Salmond psychodrama”.

The call for demonstrations was a “dog whistle to the zoomers”, she said, adding: “We need to rebuild after a pandemic which has left no person or street or shop or business untouched.”