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 .
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.
Alex Salmond’s Alba Party looks set to take six per cent of the list vote, while pro-independence parties could win 79 of the Scottish Parliament’s 129 seats in the upcoming election, a new opinion poll suggests. The latest poll for the Sunday Times has the newly-formed party Alba just above the threshold required in most of Scotland’s parliamentary regions to pick up a list seat, meaning the party could secure six Holyrood seats. In the constituency vote, the poll found the SNP had gained two points, up to 49%, with the Tories dropping one to 22%, Labour unchanged on 20% and the Lib Dems down one on 6%.