Sub-40%: Cameron Focus Is Killing Scots Independence Push

With polls showing Scotland set to reject independence in a referendum in less than three months, Prime Minister David Cameron’s team is turning its focus to delivering a “No” vote big enough to kill the question.

They are now confident of victory in the Sept. 18 ballot for the “Better Together” campaign to keep the U.K. intact, according to a prime ministerial aide who asked not to be named because Downing Street’s strategy is private. The push now is to keep the “Yes” vote below 40 percent, which Cameron’s camp sees as the threshold for ending the question of Scottish independence, the aide said.