Livesquawk have just noted an MNI headline that the Time’s has a poll that was due for this weekend coming out tonight at around 22.00 bst. As they note, be prepared that the details could be leaked ahead of that anyway.

Once again this is big bananas for the UK press so they are busting a gut to get themselves out in the news, particularly if it stirs the pot up some more.

Just to add, Alex Salmond is speaking now on UK tv. The BBC has it on the player if you can get it.

And to clarify further this MNI news, who cite CityFX, is alongside the story Mike had earlier