Scots Referendum Poll Suggests No Games Boost for Salmond
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The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow failed to deliver a boost to campaigners for an independent Scotland, a poll suggested, as nationalists and those pressing to keep the U.K. intact prepare for a televised debate tomorrow.
A Survation poll published in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday newspaper found that 40 percent of voters said they supported independence, down one percentage point from a similar survey on July 11, while those against were unchanged at 46 percent. Don’t knows accounted for 14 percent of the 1,000 voters questioned online between July 30 and Aug. 1. The margin of error was 3.1 percentage points.