Seventy miles up the road, in Gordon, the constituency the ex-First Minister is meant to be fighting, there have been fewer opportunities to touch the hem of Mr Salmond’s garment. He devoted most of the week before the Dundee event (and much of the week after it) to a busy roster of book signings in such key SNP targets as Waterstone’s, Piccadilly - and was even, until wiser counsel prevailed, due to travel this week to America.