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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 examining the botched handling of harassment complaints against Alex Salmond by the Scottish Government...

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, conducted by Savanta ComRes, purported to show a majority of 52% for No when Don’t Knows are exclude...

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 Scotland on a path to exit from the UK and creating the conditions for years of rancour and dispute ...