YOU could be forgiven for thinking he was auditioning to host the Late Late show.

With just eight days to go David Cameron hoisted the Saltire at Downing Street then arrived in Scotland with his plea not to "rip Britain apart."

He spoke to staff at Scottish Widows in the capital and said he would be "heartbroken" if the "family of nations was torn apart."

He said it was for Scotland to decide and if it chose independence, he would help make it happen.

However, he said he and the rest of the UK were not indifferent to the decision.

He said it was not an election where Scots might want to "give the 'effing' Tories a kick."

He said: "It is important everyone knows if Scotland votes to separate, it votes to separate irreversibly from the institutions we have built together and the currency we created."