THE high streets and homes of Scotland will be targeted this weekend with activists canvassing for the Yes and No campaigns as the latest polls suggest the outcome of Thursday’s independence referendum will be too close to call.

SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon said the vote was on a “knife edge” but claimed that the campaign was “moving in the direction of Yes.” 

But speaking before a rally in Glasgow last night Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said she believed “the silent majority will stand up and be counted on Thursday” for a No vote.

A survey for YouGov — the pollster which shocked everyone by putting Yes ahead last weekend — has now shown No moving back into a narrow lead, with 52 per cent to 48 per cent. 

Meanwhile an ICM poll for the Guardian conducted between Tuesday and Thursday gave an even slimmer lead to No of 51 per cent against 49 per cent for Yes.

Blair McDougall of the Better Together campaign said every voter now had “the power to tip the referendum either way.”

Yes campaign director Blair Jenkins said: “We are in touching distance of success next Thursday, and there is everything to play for.” 

Former prime minister Gordon Brown told Labour supporters in Glasgow the three pro-devolution parties at Westminster and Holyrood had now signed up to his accelerated timetable for more powers in the event of a No vote.

“Labour’s initiative means better change, faster change and safer change than that sought by the nationalists,” Mr Brown said.

Award-winning actor and director Peter Mullan slammed “scaremongering” by anti-independence campaigners yesterday.

Mr Mullan said: “When people go into that little booth and they see that very simple question, when they really think about it, when they go with their heart and their head, I think they will vote Yes.”

But a new report warned that promises to extend devolution to Scotland if it votes No to independence in next week’s referendum will only be “meaningful” if the Treasury is willing to hand over powers to borrow money.

The National Institute for Economic and Social Research said that the power to borrow should be given not only to the devolved government in Edinburgh, but to Wales, Northern Ireland and the English regions as well.