Alistair Darling: Alex Salmond scared of TV debate

Alistair Darling: Salmond 'running scared'. Picture: Jane Barlow

ALISTAIR Darling has accused Alex Salmond of “running scared” of a series of live TV debates between the pair on Scottish independence prior to next year’s referendum.

The leader of the Better Together campaign said he would be writing again to Salmond to propose a head-to-head debate. He attacked Salmond’s insistence that a TV debate take place between him and David Cameron, saying that as the prime minister did not have a vote in the referendum next year, he was the wrong person to be involved.

Marking one year to go until the referendum, Darling said: “I am willing to debate him on this key issue. I can’t understand his refusal except that I am beginning to think he is running scared.”