DHAKA: UK prime minister David Cameron has made an impassioned plea to keep Scotland in the Union, saying, ‘I love my country more than I love my party’.

Campaigning in Edinburgh, he said the 18 September independence referendum was about more than being ‘fed up with the effing Tories’, reports the BBC.

Cameron came to Scotland on the same day as Labour leader Ed Miliband and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg.

Scots first minister Alex Salmond said his opponents could not be trusted.

The prime minister told an audience he was often asked whether his Conservative Party would find it easier to win Westminster elections without Scotland, which currently has one Tory MP.

‘My answer to that is, I care far more about my country than I do about my party,’ said the prime minister.

‘I care hugely about this extraordinary country, this United Kingdom that we’ve built together.’

‘I would be heartbroken if this family of nations that we’ve put together, and we’ve done such amazing things together, if this family of nations was torn apart.’

BDST: 1918 HRS, SEP 10, 2014