Posted on 03 November 2020 by Sir John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow ScotCen Is Brexit fuelling support for independence? The rise in support for independence is now well established in the polls. The trend first became apparent last year, when the level of support for Yes increased from around the 45% mark at which it had appeared to be stuck ever since the 2014 independence referendum to an average of 49%. This figure then edged up a little further to 50% by the end of January this year, when the UK formally left the European Union. Read the rest of this entry Tags: Brexit, Scottish Social Attitudes, Scottish independence, What Scotland Thinks, political attitudes
Posted on 21 January 2014 by Sir John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow ScotCen New light on the independence debate: the score at half time Tonight (Tuesday) sees the release of initial findings on attitudes towards independence from the latest Scottish Social Attitudes survey, which was conducted between June and October last year. Tomorrow (Wednesday) you will be able to both to mine the data for yourself using our data explorerwhile there will also be some briefings that report on our early analyses available here. Read the rest of this entry Tags: John Curtice, SSA, ScotCen Social Research, Scottish Social Attitudes, Scottish independence, What Scotland Thinks, independence