Less than 40 per cent of Scots back Nicola Sturgeon’s fallback plan to turn the next general election into a de facto referendum on independence, according to a new poll.
The First Minister has said that the SNP would treat the outcome of the next Westminster election as an independence referendum in all but name if powers to stage a second vote next year are not granted.
Sturgeon’s Scottish Government wants to hold an indyref2 in 2023 but the UK government has refused permission and the legal arguments are being tested in the UK Supreme Court next month. Just 39 per cent of Scots agree that if a majority of voters supported pro-independence parties at the next general election, despite there being no referendum, this would establish a democratic mandate for independence.
