ALEX Salmond has urged Scots to ask Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats what has happened to The Vow.

Speaking at a Yes2 rally in Ellon in his Gordon constituency, where the National Roadshow was on tour yesterday, the former First Minister claimed commitments made by Better Together in the final days of the 2014 referendum campaign had not been met. Addressing the rally, he asked: “Where’s your Vow noo?”

When a poll just weeks before the September 18 vote showed Yes ahead for the first time, it brought about “dark days for the Unionist forces,” Salmond said, “where all of a sudden everything became possible” and promises were made.

He said it was promised “that Scotland didn’t have to leave the United Kingdom, it could lead the United Kingdom. That Scotland was going to have the most powerful parliament devolved in the entire world. That in the legislative statute of Westminster there was going to be an instrument that made it impossible for Westminster to override the wishes of the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish people.

“That was encapsulated in the vow that was made to Scotland.

“Well, where’s your Vow noo?”

The former SNP leader has said recently that he thinks the next referendum could be held in the autumn of next year and suggested that Nicola Sturgeon could announce the vote in the next few weeks, if Theresa May dismisses the Scottish Government’s proposals for Scotland to remain in the single market after Brexit.

He told the 300 campaigners gathered in the north-east town’s Gordon Park that vote would, in part, be about the “nature of Scotland and its place within this disunited kingdom”.

He said the fact that Scotland was being taken out of the European Union despite a majority of Scots backing Remain was proof there was no issue that could not be “trampled underfoot” by Westminster, Salmond claimed.

He went on to say that voters at the next referendum on Scottish independence would be presented with two different visions: “Trumpian Britain,” in which May sacrifices foreign policy and social policy to secure any deal possible with Donald Trump; or a Scotland which wants to move in a different direction and “a Scotland which values all of it it’s people”.

When those two visions were put in front of the Scottish people, he added: “No amount of last-minute promises, no amount of last-minute vows, no amount of hand-holding between Theresa May and Donald Trump or between the Labour establishment and the Tory Party will separate Scotland from our destiny as an independent Scotland, economically prosperous, socially just, and part of that mainstream of the European continent.”

Labour have previously called on the SNP to rule out a second referendum, with James Kelly from the party saying: “Scotland is divided enough. The SNP should rule out another independence referendum and focus on improving our schools and hospitals. Labour believes that together we’re stronger and that is why we oppose a second referendum.”