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Scotland and Independence: The High Road or Hard Road?

Europe Editor It was boisterous, it was bittersweet. On 29 January last year, the European Parliament voted to approve the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, formally triggering the end of Britain s membership of the EU and prompting a Union Jack-waving Nigel Farage to bellow that he loved Europe but hated the European Union. The then vice-president Mairead McGuinness glowered at Farage, telling him: Put your flags away, you’re leaving, and take them with you . After they’d left the chamber rose en masse to bid a tearful farewell to their remaining British colleagues, linking arms - not to the European Anthem Ode to Joy - but to a Scottish folk song,

Indyref2: Professor John Curtice says Brexit undermined the Union north of the border

Watch Professor John Curtice told Tory MSP Craig Hoy his party has undermined the legitimacy of the Union Professor John Curtice has aid that Brexit has undermined the legitemacy of the union north of the border and paved the way for a second independence referendum.  The polling expert, from the University of Strathclyde, has rejected suggestions that the Holyrood election did not give the SNP a mandate to call for a new breakaway  Prof Curtice was responding to answers given by Tory MSP Craig Hoy during the BBC s Debate Night programme, where he suggested there should be no independence referedum for the next five years .   

John Curtice: Polls show SNP and independence support slipping

Professor John Curtice has said that the current election polls suggest the SNP is likely to miss out on a majority in the Scottish election.  A slew of surveys this week have had Ms Sturgeon s party balanced on a knife-edge of securing total control of Holyrood or just coming up short. Looking at the trend, Scotland s polling expert said there was one major headline   - that support for the SNP is slipping. He also believes that Alex Salmond s Alba party is going nowhere , with polls consistently indicating it will fail to gain the 6% of the list vote needed to return an MSP.

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