Then we heard from Lord Forsyth of Drumlean who recalled that, as MichaelForsyth, he had known and distrusted Mr Salmond since their days as fellow students at St Andrews University.
Graduates include the Conservative former Scottish Secretary MichaelForsyth, Dr Madsen Pirie, founder of the Adam Smith Institute and a host of former Tory Ministers including Chris Chope, Allan Stewart, Rob Jones and Michael Fallon.
Pressed from all sides, the Scottish Tories have little option but doggedly to stick to their original plan of campaigning for the union, as MichaelForsyth, the Scottish secretary, made plain when he published the Tories' separate Scottish manifesto on April 2nd.