LABOUR frontbencher Douglas Alexander was due today to call on Yes voters to make devolution work if Scotland rejects independence this September.

Speaking in Edinburgh, exactly 15 years after Scottish Parliament’s first sitting, Mr Alexander will call for a “politics of opponents, not enemies” whatever the outcome.

The latest YouGov poll shows the No lead up 6 points on last month, with Yes on 34 per cent and No on 54 per cent.  

“The losers will be left disappointed with deeply personal feelings and hopes about themselves and their nation being dashed by the result,” Mr Alexander was expected to say.

But he urged them not to concentrate on “proving devolution wrong” if the vote was No.

The shadow foreign secretary has said the choice to stay together will “create an opportunity for politicians to lay the ground for a way of doing politics differently.”

He has argued that “the establishment of a national convention could be one way to chart a new course for an old nation.”

He was expected to say today: “Others will have other ideas, but the tasks of bringing a divided nation together will be real, urgent, and important.”

Euromillions lottery winners Chris and Colin Weir, who scooped £161 million in 2011, gave £2.5m to Yes Scotland in the past year, official figures showed yesterday.

The pair donated £1m the previous year.