David Cameron on Scotland: 'we want you to stay'

Prime Minister David Cameron says Great Britain "matters more in the world if we stay together" as he calls on Scots to vote 'no' in the referendum on independence.

David Cameron made an emotional appeal on Friday for Scotland to remain part of the United Kingdom, warning Scots a vote for independence would undermine Britain's global clout and imperil its financial and political stability.

Speaking at the Olympic Park in London, a venue chosen to symbolise the successes of the whole United Kingdom working together as Team GB, Mr Cameron made his most passionate defence yet of the UK.

"We would be deeply diminished without Scotland," he told an audience in the cavernous velodrome, saying he would fight with all he had to hold the country he governs together.

"Together, we get a seat at the UN Security Council, real clout in NATO and Europe, and the prestige to host events like the G8. Make no mistake: we matter more as a United Kingdom - politically, militarily, diplomatically and culturally too. If we lost Scotland, if the UK changed, we would rip the rug from under our own reputation."

Scots will decide in a referendum on Sept 18 whether their nation, which has a population of just over 5 million and is a source of North Sea oil, should end its 307-year-old union with England and leave the UK.

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