Chris MasonPolitical correspondent, BBC News

Gordon Brown has said promises made by the "No" parties ahead of the Scottish independence referendum on change and further devolution will be delivered.

The former prime minister said it was time to move from the "battleground to the common ground" after a majority in Scotland voted "No" to leaving the UK.

He added: "We will lock in today the promises that we have made".

Politicians in England and Scotland are considering how the UK will be governed in the future.

In a speech in Dalgety Bay, Fife, Mr Brown described three "lock ins" which he said demonstrated that pre-referendum promises would be kept:

Following Thursday's result, which saw 55% of of voters rejecting independence against 45% in favour, there has already been significant disagreement over the timing and extent of further devolution.

Prime Minister David Cameron has vowed to deliver on the pre-referendum promises made by the three main Westminster parties to boost the powers of Scotland's devolved parliament.

He has tasked Lord Smith of Kelvin, who led Glasgow's staging of the Commonwealth Games, with overseeing the process of taking their commitments forward, with new powers over tax, spending and welfare to be agreed by November, and draft legislation published by January.

Mr Cameron has also proposed a system where only MPs from England would vote on English issues in Parliament.

Chris MasonPolitical correspondent, BBC News

Constitutional change very, very rarely happens quickly - and yet there was that promise before the referendum that it would in the case of Scotland.

Both the Conservatives and Labour have said that they will honour that promise but here is the sticking point: Can the two issues of England and Scotland be unpicked?

Labour is insisting that the two should be unpicked, that devolution for England cannot be rushed and that there has to be conversation in the rest of the UK, just as there's been a conversation in Scotland.

But the Conservatives say the two have to remain together - that the English cannot be fobbed off.

This will not be easy to resolve.

Some Labour figures have warned against creating "two classes of MP"..

In Manchester, delegates have been gathering for Labour's UK conference as the party forms its response to the "No" vote fallout.

The party leader, Ed Miliband, has made it clear that he is not likely to sign up to Mr Cameron's proposals on how parliament handles English issues.

Mr Miliband favours a nationwide constitutional convention to come up with ideas, convening next autumn.

Speaking to activists ahead of the conference in Manchester, the Labour leader indicated that he was moving on from the alliance forged between the three Westminster parties in the Scottish referendum campaign.

He said: "The last few months have been about keeping our country together. The next eight months are about how we change our country together.

"And we know that yearning for change is there right across our country. Constitutional change matters, but we know that something else matters even more: this country doesn't work for most working people and we, the Labour Party, are going to change it."

Setting out his priorities, he said: "This conference is about all of those families treading water, unable to benefit from the recovery. This conference is about all of those young people who worry about their future.

"And this conference is about our National Health Service sliding backwards under this Government."

New members

Meanwhile the SNP faces a change of leadership after First Minister Alex Salmond announced he is to stand down.

The party's deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon, who is widely tipped to replace Mr Salmond, said more than 4,000 people had joined the SNP in the past 36 hours.

The Scottish Greens, who also campaigned in favour of independence, said they had recruited 1,200 new members since the referendum result.

A former treasurer of the SNP, Ian Blackford, has called for the nationalists to wield their negotiating power in the wake of the independence referendum and campaign for a form of Home Rule.

He said: "I think what we've got to do over the course of the next few months is say to Westminster, 'Look, there is a real desire for change in Scotland'."

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