Then we heard from Lord Forsyth of Drumlean who recalled that, as Michael Forsyth, he had known and distrusted Mr Salmond since their days as fellow students at St Andrews University.

BBC: Spectre at the feast

Graduates include the Conservative former Scottish Secretary Michael Forsyth, 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.

BBC: Candidates

Pressed from all sides, the Scottish Tories have little option but doggedly to stick to their original plan of campaigning for the union, as Michael Forsyth, the Scottish secretary, made plain when he published the Tories' separate Scottish manifesto on April 2nd.

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