ALEX Salmond has accused the pro-union lobby of using smoke and mirrors and a campaign mired in negativity to try to defeat his bid to make Scotland independent.
The First Minister lashed out after former chancellor Alistair Darling formally launched the Better Together campaign, which aims to keep Scotland part of the United Kingdom, by declaring independence was an "inadequate response" in a "big and difficult world" going through uncertain and turbulent economic times.
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