Martin Whitfield

The Scottish National Party is “drifting rightwards” and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is risking putting the independence movement in an “endless limbo” by pandering to the middle-class, according to a veteran SNP campaigner and former MP.

There is very little that people from rival ­parties seem to agree on in the ­current toxic ­political ­climate. But Labour’s Gordon Brown and the Tories’ David Lidington have both issued similar warnings this week about the risk to the Union.