Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown brought the anti-independence fight home to Fife just hours after he launched his party’s United with Labour campaign in Glasgow.
Mr Brown told delegates in Glasgow that the anti-independence fight has to be based on a union for social justice with fairness at its core.
And last night the Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP was joined by Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont and deputy leader Anas Sarwar at the Templehall Community Centre in Kirkcaldy for the first rally of the Labour Campaign for Scotland’s Future.
Mr Brown said: “Fife Labour is proud to convene the first public meeting in the Labour campaign. We believe it is important to have a strong Scottish Labour voice in the campaign.
“People want to know the case for a strong Scottish Parliament within a strong UK. The question is what best meets the needs and aspirations of the Scottish people and we will seek to show that working through both a Scottish Parliament and a UK Parliament is the best way forward.”
Fife has already been the venue for the successful Fife Talks series where Professors Tom Devine, Alvin Jackson and Lindsay Paterson have spoken on Scotland’s past, present and future.
Voters in Scotland go to the polls on September 18 next year. They will be asked the single yes/no question: “Should Scotland be an independent country?”
Mr Brown told a gathering in Glasgow that “pooling and sharing resources gets the best for everyone”.
He criticised both the SNP and the Conservatives during his address at the Emirates Arena. The party campaign aims to contact half a million households in the next three months.
Mr Brown also hinted that more power could be devolved to Scotland if voters reject independence.
“I yield to no one in my pride in being Scottish,” he said. “I was born in Scotland. I was brought up in Scotland, went to school in Scotland. I live in Scotland. My children were born in Scotland. My sons are at school in Scotland. My sons are growing up in Scotland. We achieve more together working together than by working on our own.”