Politics Live blog: Ed Miliband's speech on Scotland staying in UK 11.40am: Another question to Miliband. Q: Do you agree with Cameron that "devo max" would lead to separatism? Miliband says that, unlike Cameron, he really believes in devolution. But he also says that it is important not to confuse devolution with separatism. Johann Lamont, Labour's leader in Scotland, says she has never accepted that Scotland faces a choice between separatism and the status quo. She has never been in favour of the status quo, she says. She also says that it would take a lot to persuade her that it would be a good idea to have "tax competition" in the UK. 11.38am: A question from the Scotsman. Q: Given that you are backing elements of the benefits cap, will you be attacked from the left by the SNP? Miliband says there is always a danger of being attacked in politics. But the important thing is do to the right thing. Labour is in favour of regional benefit caps. But it is also important to take on private landlords. Private landlords have been charging exorbitant rents, he says. 11.35am: A question from a non-journalist. Q: Is there any economic data about what might happen to Scotland post-indendence? Lamont says the question illustrates why the issue is so importance. When people pose questions like this, they are accused of "talking down Scotland." 11.32am: A question from the Scottish Daily Mail. Q: Do you accept that the referendum will be in autumn 2014? Miliband says that must be decided in Scotland. He means it should be decided by the people of Scotland. When Alex Salmond says this must be decided in Scotland, he means decided by him. Johann Lamont says she does not see why there has to be a delay. She doesn't understand why Salmond wants to put it off if it is so important. There is a "frustration" that Scotland is being asked to wait another 1,000 days. My own view is that we should be having a decision soon rather than later. 11.25am: More questions to Miliband. Q: What do you think of the question proposed by Alex Salmond? Johann Lamont, Labour's leader in Scotland, says there is some evidence saying that if the question asks "Do you want Scotland to be an independent country?" (as Salmond proposes), then it encourages a certain response. She says she thinks someone independent needs to assess whether the question is fair. Miliband says the Electoral Commission should ensure that the question is fair. 11.22am: Sky and BBC News are no longer covering Miliband's Q&A, but there's live footage on the BBC's news website. Miliband says he thinks people who are prosperous in Glasgow care about poverty in London, and people who are prosperous in London care about poverty in Glagow. 11.20am: The speech is over. Miliband is now taking questions. Q: Would you share a platform with David Cameron in a campaign against indendence? Miliband says the issue of platforms "is an issue for later." But he says his vision of Britain is very different from Cameron's. He is going to go toe-to-toe against Salmond. 11.18am: Miliband says people in the UK have shared values. Nearly half of all Scots have English relatives. When a Scotsman who works in the shipyards of Govan meets an Englishman who works on the docks in Merseyside, he doesn't see a foreigner, he sees a fellow countryman. The pensioner from Aberdeen or Ayr has more in common with the pensioner in Bristol or Bolton than with a pensioner in France or Belgium. When the Olympics are on next year, nobody in the pubs in Newcastle will cheer any less loudly for Chris Hoy, wearing the Union flag, just because he was born in Edinburgh. Oops. I think he meant this year. 11.16am: Miliband says climate change also illustrates the importance of the UK nations working together. Every nation is now making efforts to tackle this but separation creates the danger that we compete on where companies should go to be able to produce more carbon. We should tackle climate change together. 11.13am: Miliband says building responsible capitalism is "the true project for social justice in our United Kingdom." Scotland and the rest of the UK do not have separate economies, he says. We are one economy. The banks serving Glasgow are the same as the ones serving Gloucester. The shops on your high street are the same as the shops on my high street. And decisions made by British companies like BAE will affect their employees in Govan as much as their employees in Barrow. We can make our economy work for the majority. We can make capitalism more responsible. But I tell you this: We can only do it together. He says more people in Scotland are employed by large companies based in the rest of the UK than in Scotland. So reform in one country and not in another would simply mean companies moving a few miles north or south to where rules are easiest for them. Rather than advancing fairness together, the risk is a race to the bottom on bank regulation, on wages, and conditions at work. 11.12am: Miliband says achievements like the Equal Pay Act and the minimum wage "do not belong to one nation of the UK," he says. They are British achievements. 11.09am: Miliband says Labour's story, and Britain's story, is about what people have achieved together. The story of the Scotsman, the Englishman, and the Welshman is not just the start of a good joke. It is the history of social justice in this country. It was a Scotsman, Keir Hardie, who founded the Labour party a hundred and twelve years ago. An Englishman, Clement Attlee, who led the most successful Labour government in history. And a Welshman, Nye Bevan, who pioneered that Government's greatest legacy, our National Health Service. 11.07am: Miliband says he does not want Scotland to stay in the UK because he thinks it is too weak to flourish on its own. I support Scotland as part of the United Kingdom, not because I think Scotland is too poor or too weak to break away. But for a profoundly different reason: Because I believe that Scotland as part of the United Kingdom is better for the working people of Scotland, and better for the working people of the United Kingdom as a whole. The real divide in the UK is not between Scotland and England, he says. I say let's confront the real divide in Britain. Not between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. But between the haves and the have-nots. 11.05am: Miliband says the people of Scotland should decide the timing of the referendum. But they should decide on the basis of "one clear question," he says. When the nationalists talk about the referendum process, they do so because they want to avoid a debate about the substance, he says. 11.02am: Miliband says he comes to Scotland with "humility" because of Labour's performance in the Scottish elections last year. The SNP will ask what right Miliband, as a non-Scot, has to get involved in this debate, he says. But he wants to take this argument head-on. His father came to Britain as a refugee, he says. He fought in the Navy and served off the Forth of Firth. He did not come to England; he came to Britain, Miliband says. If Scotland separates, all people living in the four nations of the UK will be affected, Miliband says. 11.01am: Miliband says the RBC fiasco raises wider questions about the need to create a more responsible capitalism. One lesson stands out - we stand or fall by our ability to work together. And that is why he is making the case for Scotland to stay in the UK, he says. 10.59am: Ed Miliband is speaking now. He starts with some comments on executive pay. He renews his call for workers to sit on remuneration committees. And he says executive pay should be simplified. There should be one salary, one bonus, he says, rather than complicated remuneration packages. 10.54am: Ed Miliband (left) is about to give his speech in Glasgow on the progressive case for Scotland remaining in the UK. It is his response to Alex Salmond's Hugh Young lecture last week. Salmond said progressives should support Scottish independence, because "an independent Scotland could be a beacon for progressive opinion south of the border." Here's our preview of Miliband's speech. As for the rest of the papers, for some reaason the Telegraph is particularly interesting today. Here are three articles worth noting. James Kirkup in the Daily Telegraph says General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the army, has said that cuts are leaving soldiers unsettled and frustrated. General Sir Peter Wall, the Chief of the General Staff, said redundancies were starting to bite and also raised concerns that the quality of military accommodation was "not up to standard." Cuts to pensions remains "one of the greatest concerns" in the Army, he added. His intervention will raise questions about whether defence cuts are undermining morale in the Armed Forces. James Kirkup in the Daily Telegraph on what the Tories are doing to improve their appeal to women. In Downing Street, private polling has identified two distinct groups of women with their own particular concerns about the Coalition. The first is older women in the AB - ie better-off - social class, women who worry about the government's "values." It is to these women that recent prime ministerial pronouncements on issues like adoption and forced marriage have been aimed. This week, the Prime Minister will speak to them again with new promises to curb the seemingly relentless sexualisation of children through marketing and the media ... Among them is the other group of women bothering No 10: younger members of the C2 social class, more likely to have young children and more likely to worry about household budgets. Ministers have been advised to try to persuade them that without the Coalition's cuts, their children will be saddled with this generation's debts. The coalition is also desperate to persuade them that the recent squeeze on living standards is caused by frozen wages and high energy prices, and not "the cuts." Louise Armitstead in the Daily Telegraph says the Centre for Policy Studies is calling for corporation tax to be halved. The Centre for Policy Studies says the tax cut is the "only source of a viable economic recovery" since households and individuals are "too indebted to expect consumers to lead a rescue of the economy." Companies have spare cash, which could be directed towards infrastructure and other projects, but "also need the confidence to invest." Tim Knox, director of the Centre for Policy Studies, said: "Profitable businesses are the only source of a viable economic recovery, the Chancellor should reduce the rate of corporation tax in the 2012 Budget - and also announce his intention to reduce it even further to 15 per cent or even 10 per cent once the appropriate anti-evasion measures are in place." Photograph: Spencer Murphy for the Guardian 10.32am: Ken Livingstone (left) has announced today that, if he wins the mayoral election, he will cut fares by 7% for Londoners on Sunday 7 October. He has also said that he will resign if he breaks this promise. Politics should be about making a difference, and just as I cut fares before, I will cut them now because the tough times we're going through demand a fairer fares policy. If I am elected in a few short months there will be real change for the better. There could not be a clearer choice. Boris Johnson raised your fares for the fourth time this January, but on October 7th 2012 I will cut them, saving the average Londoner £1000 over four years. By setting the date for the fares cut I'm showing that politics is about change and about doing something real for the majority, not just a privileged few. My commitment to carrying out this cut is such that I give my word that if I do not cut the fares on or by October 7th I will resign the office of Mayor immediately and cause a by-election. There is considerable scepticism about whether Livingstone can cut fares by 7% without damaging Transport for London's investment plans. I spoke to Livingstone about this, and much else, in an interview with him last week which we've just posted on our website this morning. 10.14am: The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has announced that it is accepting the government's proposed public sector pension reforms. The ATL, which represents 160,000 teachers, said the move followed the results of a poll of members in which 91.6% of respondents voted in favour of the plans. This is from the ATL president Alice Robinson. ATL members are realists. They recognise how tough times are and that the government is determined not to give any further ground. Although the government's final offer does not give us everything we wanted, it is the best deal we could get in the current economic climate. And members do not want a significantly worse deal imposed on them if they rejected this one. 10.08am: Theresa May, the home secretary, is delivering her speech now. She said that she is accepting all the recommendations of the independent tribunal looking at the Tom Winsor proposals for the reform of police pay and that the new system would eventually save the taxpayer £150m a year. I'll post more on this when I've had a chance to read the full details. 9.59am: Douglas Alexander (left), the shadow foreign secretary, says William Hague's Today interview this morning (see 9.33am) amounts to an admission that David Cameron's "veto" at the December EU summit was pointless. William Hague has been forced to admit this morning that the deal on the table today does not include any direct requirements of the UK, making David Cameron's decision to walk away from the negotiations last month even less understandable. The prime minister should be putting the national interest ahead of his party interest - by leading for Britain. Instead he's being dictated to by his backbenchers, warned by his Welfare Secretary and followed around by an aide to Nick Clegg. Sadly David Cameron's decision to walk away from the table before the negotiations had even started has made it harder for him to push for a solution to the eurozone's problems and get a deal that boost jobs and growth in Britain. The reference to Cameron being "followed around by an aide to Nick Clegg" refers to this story from the House magazine about a member of Clegg's staff accopanying Cameron to today's EU summit. 9.51am: Here's Unite's national officer David Fleming on Stephen Hester's decision not to take his £1m bonus. Better late then never will be the feeling amongst the call centre, bank branch and processing staff at RBS that Stephen Hester has finally bowed to public pressure to waive his nearly £1 million bonus. This gesture goes some way in acknowledging the hypocrisy of an organisation which has sacked over 21,000 staff, while still attempting to pay bumper bonuses to the bosses. As Unite demanded at the time the bonus was announced, it was right for common sense to prevail and this massive bonus to be waived. There remains a long way for RBS to go in proving its credentials as a responsible organisation, to its customers and also to its thousands of staff. 9.33am: William Hague (left) was actually invited on to the Today programme to talk about today's informal EU summit, not Stephen Hester's bonus. At the weekend it emerged that David Cameron had abandoned his attempt to stop the eurozone countries from using common EU institutions, like the European court of justice, to police their new fiscal union. Hague told the Today programme that, although Britain would not stop the eurozone countries using the EU institutions, the government still had some reservations on this score. This group cannot cut across the EU treaties ... If the use of the EU treaties at any point threatens Britain's fundamental rights under the EU treaties, or damages our vital interests such as the single market, then we would have to take action about that, including legal action. So we will reserve our position on the specific question about the use of the court. We are not signing a treaty that permits that. He sounded like someone doing his best to put a diplomatic gloss on a U-turn. In a post for ConservativeHome at the weekend, Tim Montgomerie said it was now hard to know what Cameron's "veto" at the EU's December summit actually achieved. 9.23am: Here is some more of the reaction to Stephen Hester's decision not to take his £1m bonus. We are not opposed to the concept of a bonus. But this is a time when people listening to this programme are facing the biggest squeeze on their incomes in a generation, not least other - and I use that word deliberately - other public sector workers are being forced to take a 1 per cent pay increase cap on their salaries. That's the big issue here. From William Hague, the foreign secretary The long-term incentive scheme that everybody has been talking about was actually agreed in 2009 under the previous Labour government, so I don't think they have that much to congratulate themselves about. But, as the chancellor has said, it's a sensible and welcome decision. 8.45am: Stephen Hester's decision to give up his £1m bonus is still dominating the news this morning. Hester backed down after Labour announced it was going to force a Commons vote on the issue and this raises the prospect that parliament could start trying to veto other bonus payments. All three main parties have been welcoming Hester's move this morning but at least one brave soul has been suggesting that Hester should have kept his money. Mark Field, the Tory MP for the Cities of London and Westminster, told Radio 5 Live that Hester had been the victim of "lynch mob activity." Its pretty unedifying watching politicians doing it, actually, I don't like to see political figures jumping on a particular bandwagon to kick the guy ... You can look at the share price and say well, there hasn't been a great success. The reality is the bank has been put on a much more sustainable footing ... We've got £45bn that is tied up in this bank. My big worry is, who in their right mind is going to want to put themselves through the mill that Stephen Hester has been through in the last weeks and months? I'll post a full round-up of the reaction to the Hester decision later. David Cameron is in Brussels today for his first EU summit since his decision to "veto" a new EU treaty. I'll be keeping an eye on that, although it will probably wrap after I've finished. Otherwise, here's the agenda for the day. 10am: Theresa May, the home secretary, gives a speech on police reform. She will announce plans to plans to give communities tougher protection from anti-social behaviour. 10am: Stig Abell, director of the Press Complaints Commission, and his predecessor Tim Toulmin give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry. 10.30am: Ed Milband, the Labour leader, gives a speech in Glasgow on the case for Scotland staying in the UK. He will argue that the goals of fairness and justice are best delivered within the UK. 10.30am: Labour MPs Natascha Engel and Keith Vaz and Tory MP Douglas Carswell speak at a People's Pledge press conference where it will set out its campaign strategy for 2012. The People's Pledge is a cross-party group campaign for a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU. 3.30pm: Kenneth Clarke, the justice secretary, is expected to make a Commons statement on plans to reform the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. He wants to restrict the ability of convicted criminals to claim compensation. 3.30pm: Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, and Hector Sants, its chief executive, give evidence to the Commons Treasury committee about the collapse of RBS.