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The SNP will be lacking a majority in the Scottish Parliament The Scottish National Party he was well on his way to remaining the largest parliamentary party in Holyrood on Saturday, but it looks like he will miss out on winning a majority of 129 seats in the chamber. The pro-independence SNP won 59 of the 70 seats in the first constituency declared on Saturday evening, but was unable to take the marginal targets that were considered essential for a majority in a proportionately represented par...

COVID-19 overshadows independence in key Scottish election Associated Press 3 hrs ago By JILL LAWLESS and RENEE GRAHAM, Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press The Scottish side of the border between Scotland and England at Berwick-Upon-Tweed, Scotland, Tuesday, May 4, 2021. Scotland holds an election Thursday that could hasten the breakup of the United Kingdom. The pro-independence Scottish National Party is leading in the polls and a big victory will give it the t...

Scottish Voters Reluctant About Independence Vote as Economy Struggles Amid Pandemic On 5/5/21 at 9:22 AM EDT The economic upheaval following Britains exit from the European Union and the coronavirus pandemic has cast a shadow over the push for Scottish independence. As Scotland heads into parliamentary elections Thursday, the Scottish National Party, which has led a minority government since 2016, says a big victory will give it the political momentum to hold a referendum on whether Scotland s...

Updated: April 26, 2021, 3:58 pm © D C Thomson & Co Ltd Sign up for our daily Politics briefing for political exclusives, analysis and debate. Thank you for signing up to our Politics newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up The coronavirus pandemic has seen voters exposed to an almost constant diet of daily briefings over the last year and has led many to make their own assessment of the approaches taken by the Scottish and UK governments. With next month’s ...

A RECENT poll which appeared to show a majority of Scots oppose independence has brought the “whole political polling industry into disrepute”,…

SNP voter Paul Higgins was furious when he watched Nicola Sturgeon being questioned by MSPs for eight hours last week. “It was brutal,” he says. “It was almost like everyone had judged her before she sat in the chair. They were out for blood.” He was so angry he immediately signed up to become a member of the SNP for the first time. And he wasn’t alone, with the party gaining more than 7000 new members in the 24 hours following the session at the Holyrood committee, which is exa...

Professor Sir John Curtice said the latest Panelbase poll showed an even split between Yes and No support THE bombshell poll which suggested a majority of Scots now support remaining in the Union would have shown the opposite had standard methodology been used, a top pollster has suggested. The poll, published by Scotland on Sunday, the stablemate of the Scotsman daily newspaper, reported a “No vote lead as Salmond inquiry drives voters away from Scottish independence”. This poll, con...

SUPPORT for Scottish independence has dropped to 50 for the first time in more than a year, according to the results of a new poll.

The Yes movement’s increasingly fractious divisions threaten to alienate the moderate voters the SNP needs to win over. 

A kingdom of fragments The SNP is likely to win a resounding victory in the Scottish Parliament elections. How long can London hold off a second independence referendum?  The Holyrood election in May is the most significant in the more than 20-year history of devolution and among the most freighted democratic events of the nearly 314-year-old Union between Scotland and England. Current polls suggest the SNP will secure a majority, with a mandate for a second independence referendum, putting ...