If ever we get an in/out referendum here’s the most important lesson we need to learn from the Scottish referendum

Whether you want to stay in or get out, think the best about the other side

ConservativeHome manifesto: Introduction – Homes. Jobs. Savings. Plus Money and Power. Ten policies to make a difference.

Home ownership first. New garden cities. Scrap HS2. Repatriate immigration control. Reform pensions tax relief. Higher NIC thesholds. English home rule. Internet voting.

Henry Hill: Independence will end SNP’s student discrimination

Also: Northern Irish civil service plan fresh tranche of cuts; and devolved health services miss performance targets.

Henry Hill: Sinn Fein remains defiant on welfare reform

Also: Gaddafi’s ex-spymaster offers to reveal IRA connexions; and Welsh Tories double down on grammar schools.

Brian Monteith: How Darling can win the next debate with Salmond

The grim reality is food banks would be the only kind of bank blossoming in an independent Scotland.

Henry Hill: Benefit reform stalemate threatens Ulster devolution

Also: Lib Dems duck joined-up grant reform by just giving Wales more money; anti-Israel petition for resignation of Glagow’s Tory councillor over flag tweet.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: The success of our United Kingdom holds lessons for uniting Iraq

Share power. Share wealth. Embrace an entity bigger than your own ethnicity. The United Kingdom is an example to follow.

Rebecca Coulson: Miliband and Salmond are both playing a bad game of politics

And Britain and her economy deserve better than that. Politics ought, in the first place, to be about doing the right thing.

There are no easy answers to the West Lothian Question

Resolving the West Lothian Question whilst defending ‘British’ government will be one of the great challenges of the next Parliament.

Sam Bowman: An answer to Salmond’s problem. Scotland could use sterling – without a central bank

What works for Panama with the dollar could work after independence with the pound.

WATCH: Darling asks Salmond – “What is Plan B?”

The fieriest moments in last night’s independence debate were around the issue of Scotland’s currency. Can Salmond be sure of keeping the Pound?

Henry Hill: Father of Dunblane victim attacks SNP drive for armed police

Also: Villiers’ proposal on parades dispute ‘sunk’ by nationalists; new complaints regulator needed to combat NHS ‘defensiveness’ in Wales.

Brian Monteith: Why the Scottish nationalists are resorting to political bribery

Salmond promises cash he doesn’t have because his strategy is coming unstuck.

Henry Hill: UN claims barring National Crime Agency from Ulster ‘put children at risk’

Also: Welsh Tory leader denies blackmail ‘cover up’; Sinn Fein accused of intimidating businesses over Gaza; and Ann Clwyd reconsiders retirement.

Henry Hill: Blair Government IRA comfort letters a cock-up, not a conspiracy, says enquiry

Also: PM stands by attacks on Cardiff government in visit to Royal Welsh Show; and Scottish businesses urged to make plans for rUK.