Alex Salmond spent the days and hours before his death talking about Scottish independence.
In the final video footage of the former First Minister, filmed the day before he died, Salmond discussed the success of the Edinburgh Agreement and joked with his fellow panel members about former Labour leader Jim Murphy being egged.
The panel discussion on Friday October 11 saw Salmond sitting alongside former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin, former president of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca and former chairman of the presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Mladen Ivanić, among others.
He said that if he said anything wrong he wouldn’t be buying lunch, adding: ” I’m Scottish afterall – we don’t do these sort of things.”
The Alba party leader said there had been “many successful things about the process of trying to reclaim Scottish independence” and said: “There was no violence. Scotland is not unique in the world but it’s unusual in that the process of self-determination in the modern era, in the democratic era, has been achieved without a single person losing their life.
“In fact, nobody’s had so much as a nosebleed.
“I think the worst excess of the entire referendum campaign…was that somebody got an egg thrown at them which is hardly one of the great excesses of politics. So that was an extraordinary success.
“That was enabled because people on each side of the argument knew there was a process by which the argument could be decided i.e. a referendum…a ‘square go’ as we might call it in the Scottish vernacular.”
The following day Salmond suffered a heart attack while having lunch with the other conference attendees including Alba party chairwoman Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh.
His body has been repatriated today after businessman Sir Tom Hunter stepped in to pay for the arrangements.
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