what will be important for alec salmond and nicholas sturgeon is how many people are coming with alec if he is elected. in the opinion polls, they are playing on a large number of mps. they could have 20 or 25 mps. that would be a huge number. it would be important in deciding who governs. >> let's look at the flip side of devolution. it has created a flurry amongst english cities who wants more power. >> the whole english votes for english laws, it has almost had turbo boosters put it by what happened in the scotish referendum and the promise of more devolution for scotland. although the government says the two issues are not linked and one does not depend on the other, it is pretty obvious that there are a large number of english mp's, conservative mps who say it is happy to have more powers. whether it be the cities of liverpool and manchester, leeds perhaps getting more power to or regions of the united kingdom. and again, there is there is a feeling that if scottish mps can vote on matters that do not affect them. that is not fair. the question is not going away. >> there isn't a

alec salmond announced he was standing down and was replaced by his long-standing deputy nicola sturgeon. but he was not leaving the political stage. the later announced he would stand for receipt and was munster. -- the later announced he would stand for a seat in westminster. >> in some cases, nothing changed. the scots voted to remain a part of the united kingdom. in other ways, everything changed. it was promised that scotland would get more devolution, visit of the smith commission. -- they set up the smith commission. they are proposing radical powers, particularly on taxation, giving the scottish parliament for more power over day-to-day event. what will happen is that over the next few months that will be knocked into legal parliamentary control. the aim is that when the new government comes into westminster in may of 2015, although the legislation will be on the statute book, they can take it off the shelf and services to legislation to give scotland more powers and we will pass it as a priority when the new government comes in. all of the three main parties the conservatives, t