Gordon Brown vow ‘did not sway referendum result’
ALEX Salmond’s claim that Gordon Brown’s “vow” was the decisive moment in persuading people to reject independence has been further undermined by an academic “post-mortem” of the referendum.
An Edinburgh University survey of more than 4,500 people has revealed that just 3.4 per cent of No voters said the offer of more powers was the main motivation for their decision.
Rather, it was No voters’ feelings of Britishness and their doubts about the economics of breaking up the UK that led to them rejecting Scottish independence.