"Put Scotland's future in Scotland's hands." That is the message Alex Salmond will deliver to delegates today at the SNP's Spring Conference.
As the nationalist party committed to fulfilling an 80-year pledge to gain Scotland its independence from the United Kingdom continues to reduce the gap in the polls ahead of September's referendum, he is expected to maintain that the vote is not about him.
"This referendum is not about this party, or this First Minister, or even the wider Yes campaign," he will say in the speech, which will be shown live on Sky News at 3pm.
"It's about putting Scotland's future in Scotland's hands.
"Our party is hugely popular, and we are currently five, 10 and 15 points ahead in polls for Westminster, Europe and Holyrood respectively.
"But a Yes vote in September is not a vote for me, or for an SNP government in 2016.
"It's a vote for a government in Scotland that the people of Scotland choose, pursuing policies the people of Scotland support."
The speech, much like the campaign, will make much of the fact that Scots have voted in a way at significant variance with the overall result of recent general elections.
He will say: "I tell you what (the government of an independent Scotland) won't be. It won't be a government led by a party with just a single MP in Scotland.
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