Alex Salmond issues a written plea to the voters of Scotland today.
In an open letter to the electorate, the First Minister urged the nation to take full advantage of the “most empowering moment any of us will ever have”.
He writes: “In these final hours of this historic campaign, I want to speak directly to every person in this country.
“I have no doubt people in Scotland will look past the increasingly desperate and absurd scare stories being generated daily from Downing Street.
“Those have no place in a sensible debate so in these last days of the greatest campaign Scotland has ever seen, I want to ask you to take a step back from the arguments of politicians and blizzard of statistics.”
He called for the spotlight to be shifted to the people.
“What’s left is just us the people who live and work here,” he said. “The only people with a vote. The people who matter.
“Wake up on Friday morning to the first day of a better country,” he said. “Wake up knowing you did this, you made it happen.
“This vote isn’t about me, it isn’t about the SNP, the Labour Party or the Tories.
“It’s about you. Your family. Your hopes. Your ambitions.
“It’s about taking your country’s future into your hands.
“Don’t let this opportunity slip through our fingers.
“Don’t let them tell us we can’t. Let’s do this.”