15th December 2014 Comment
How Scotland should be governed
…20 points behind the SNP in voting intentions for next Westminster’s election – an outcome that could see it lose the vast bulk of its Commons seats. The fact that…
18th June 2014 Comment
How Scotland should be governed The Scottish independence referendum
…saga of markedly divergent results continues with new findings from YouGov for The Sun (for Scotland as a whole) and from ComRes for ITV Border (for the Scottish Borders and…
18th June 2014 Comment
Expectations of constitutional change The Scottish independence referendum
…you are wondering, 51% of the sample said they would vote No, 37% Yes, which means that after the Don’t Knows were excluded, No were on 58%, Yes on 42%,…
22nd May 2020 Comment
Elections, parties & leaders
…so dramatically, Labour found it easier to prosper among Remain voters than Leave supporters. Meanwhile, previous research based on the Scottish Social Attitudes survey has indicated that Brexit played a…
8th July 2016 Comment
How Scotland should be governed
…Sturgeon long ago signalled that a UK-wide vote to leave the EU combined with a vote in Scotland to remain would likely be regarded as the kind of ‘material change’…
6th January 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…in England, Wales and Northern Ireland whether, given the existence of the Common Travel Area, they thought there should be ‘freedom of movement with no passport controls’ between an independent…
9th February 2014 Comment
The Scottish independence referendum
…have had at least one post-White Paper reading of the state of the referendum race from all those companies that have been polling referendum vote intentions on a reasonably regular…
3rd November 2020 Comment
Expectations of constitutional change National identity and cultural issues Policy issues
…provides in particular a systematic comparison of how the public now regard the arguments in these two seemingly intertwined debates. First, though, we should note that the latest SSA survey…
4th September 2015 Comment
Cross border attitudes How England should be governed
…who ‘strongly agreed’ rather than just ‘agreed’ were now a little more in evidence (29%) than before (18%). Meanwhile, in the one instance where a polling company (ComRes) has asked…
14th February 2022 Comment
Expectations of constitutional change
…should be noted that each of these questions invites people to indicate whether they agree or disagree with a pro-independence proposition. One of the potential pitfalls with this approach is…