Labour Party rivals Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown have put their differences to one side to campaign against Scottish independence.
The Better Together group chairman said he and the former prime minister were “absolutely at one” on the issue and would share a platform during the referendum campaign.
The breakdown in the relationship between the two men was laid bare in 2011 when Mr Darling accused Mr Brown of “hopeless” leadership and “appalling behaviour” during his time as prime minister
Mr Darling also claimed in his memoirs that his fellow MP was misguided when he declared the financial crisis would be over within six months.
But frosty relations between the two men appear to have thawed.
Asked if he and Mr Brown would share a platform during the referendum campaign, Mr Darling said: “I hope so, we have a good relationship. I met him just before Christmas and Gordon, last week in Fife, said he intended to work with Better Together.
“On this issue we are absolutely at one and he has made some excellent speeches over the last year or so and will continue to make them, as I will.”
Mr Darling used a speech in Edinburgh yesterday to declare that SNP plans for a currency union with the rest of the UK if Scotland became independent were “dead in the water”.
“You would have to agree to each others’ tax and spending because the Bank of England could not fix interest rates if you had two different economic policies,” he added. “I just don’t think it is going to happen.”
Mr Darling claimed there was “more financial detail on a national lottery ticket” than in the Scottish Government’s white paper on independence.