Alex Salmond ‘final words’ just hours before his death are revealed – as new photos show him taking part in conference shortly before he suffered ‘heart attack’ [Video]

21:13 EDT 12 Oct 2024, updated 07:10 EDT 13 Oct 2024

Alex Salmond took to social media to proudly fight for Scotland just hours before his death – signing off his final post with ‘Scotland is a country not a county’.

The former First Minister, who died of a suspected heart attack yesterday during lunch at a conference in Macedonia, made a name for himself by fiercely fighting for his nation.

A titan of Scottish politics, the 69-year-old led the Scottish National Party to their first majority in 25 years of devolution, where he secured a referendum for independence from then Tory Prime Minister David Cameron for 2014. 

Mr Salmond posted on social media just three hours before the news of his death was broken, characteristically lauding independence as he urged First Minister John Swinney to think ‘independently, not subserviently’.

Slamming his involvement in Starmer’s Council of Nations and Regions yesterday, he raged that the meeting was a ploy ‘to pull …