Willie Rennie has been travelling round Scotland on town centre tour over the last few days, urging voters to vote to remain in the European Union.

Here he is in Perth:

Campaigning for remain in Perth with the team. #INtogether Still lots undecideds so work still to be done. pic.twitter.com/3kdb5MH8l6

— Willie Rennie (@willie_rennie) June 22, 2016

In his final pitch to voters he said:

Voters going to the polls tomorrow will be doing more than simply putting a cross in a box. They are taking a decision over the values that will define us as a nation for decades to come.

Open and outward looking or insular and closed. Ambitious and hopeful or timid and cynical.

We have a choice between building on the progress that we have made as part of the EU, or leaving and going it alone. The EU has helped protect human rights and workers’ rights. Our businesses sell their products all over Europe, supporting jobs here in Scotland and across the UK. Crime does not respect international borders and the EU helps our police work with other forces across Europe to keep us safe.

Tomorrow we can choose to work together or walk away from international cooperation that has helped keep the peace in Europe for more than five decades. We will choose to work together or walk away from something that has given us billions of pounds in trade, millions of jobs across the UK and has helped bring thousands of criminals to justice.

A Remain vote means protecting jobs, lower prices and a decent, tolerant United Kingdom and if we vote to leave there is no going back.

He emphasised that every vote would count:

Don’t leave it to everyone else. If we vote to leave, there is no going back. Every single Remain vote in Scotland will count. We need you to make the case for our place in the EU over the last few days of the campaign.

What this referendum debate boils down to is a question over the sort of country that we want our children to grow up in. For me, the answer will always be a Britain that is open, outward looking and leading in Europe. If you agree, then the time to speak up is now.

Vote Remain for more jobs, lower prices, stronger public services and a decent, tolerant Great Britain.

Earlier this week, he talked about Charles Kennedy’s long contribution to the European debate in a speech to activists in Paisley:

We won’t always have to look back to the memory of Charles Kennedy. But on this issue of Europe, on this campaign, I don’t think Charles would want to miss out. This debate is at the heart of his ideals, his compassion and his hard-headed sense.

I look at his words in his speech to the Council of Europe in June 2014, two years ago. He quoted Robert Burns and the need to see ourselves as other see us. And in the next five days, that is surely the poetry everyone in the Scotland and the whole UK needs to think about.

What message would we send around the world if we said that we can’t work with others that we can’t co-operate, that we always know best? Why would people take us seriously in the capital cities and the company boardrooms in Madrid, Delhi, or Washington DC? If we declare that we will not co-operate with our neighbours, why would others truly believe that we will work with them?

Charles Kennedy reminded us in a speech to our Scottish party conference soon after he took over the party leadership of the words of a former U.S. ambassador in London (Raymond Seitz): ‘If Britain’s voice is less influential in Paris or Bonn, it is likely to be less influential in Washington.’

As Charles concluded, it is “utter nonsense” to think that the UK would be treated like a 51st state of the USA or a special friend of China or Russia after withdrawal from influence in Europe.

It has been a dark week for freedoms and democracy. Forty-nine people murdered in a gay club in Orlando a week ago shocked us all. The murder of Jo Cox in the line of her duty left us numb at the senselessness of it all. This is a week when I needed to hear the compassion, the common sense and the decency of Charles Kennedy. He could speak about the idealism. He could speak about the dreams. And he could speak too, of the hard-headed economics of remaining in the European Union.

He told us in 1999: The eurosceptics like to talk about 800 years of Britain’s independent history. But we have an equally long and proud history of constructive engagement in Europe. Go back even to the Middle Ages. When the east coast had far closer links with the Low Countries by sea, than it did with the rest of Britain.

Those trading contacts began an 800 year long story of Britain in Europe. The European Union is a story of a fifty year mission, through the European Union, to ensure that Europe is never again ravaged by poverty, unemployment and war.

We in this country are, as Charles Kennedy was, a force for good in the world, however imperfect. We should work with that grain, rather than give up in despair. Our work for good in the world is amplified and extended within a European Union.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings