• New vote: Nicola Sturgeon will launch a second referendum in Scotland before May 2021
  • Scotland.Sturgeon warns Johnson that he will accelerate his plans for a new independence referendum in Scotland
  • UK.Boris Johnson promises to strengthen the union in a hostile Scotland

52% of Scots would support Scotland's independence from the United Kingdom compared to 48% who would be against it, according to a survey conducted by Lord Ashcroft days after the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, visited Edinburgh. The Scots would support, in this way, the proposal of their main minister, Nicola Sturgeon, who in recent months has repeatedly expressed his intention to promote a second independence referendum before the end of this term (2021).

To the hypothetical question - "Should Scotland be an independent country?" - the "yes" would surpass "no" for the first time since June 2016 (when the referendum took place to decide whether the United Kingdom should leave the EU), although again by a narrow margin of difference (46% would answer "yes", compared to 43% of Scots who would answer "no"). An affirmative answer would expire with 52% if 8% of undecided and 4% who, in principle, would not go to vote were excluded.

The independence pulse in Scottish society has been oscillating in recent months and has taken shape as the British central government managed the exit of the European Union, "ignoring" the Scottish vision, as expressed throughout the political course leader of the nationalist formation in Westminster, Ian Blackford.

This is an issue that with the new 'premier' seems to have taken a fatalistic drift towards a 'no deal' that would be effective on Halloween night. Boris Johnson, who in his visit to Edinburgh was forced to leave the Bute House through the back door, has led to a widespread rejection in the Scottish population because of the way he wants to put an end to Brexit. Sturgeon is also against the path that Johnson wants to take to leave the EU.

"The road Boris is following is dangerous. He has sent the United Kingdom to an almost certain Brexit without agreement, and it will be very difficult for any agreement to be reached by the European Union, which would be catastrophic for Scotland and for the entire United Kingdom "Sturgeon declared after his encounter with him.

This new show of support for the independence cause defended by the Scottish main minister has been repudiated by the Conservative Party both nationally and in the Scottish field, where the 'tories' are reluctant to facilitate the activation of Article 30 that would enable the Holding a new referendum. "It would be a democratic outrage for any government to deny that desire, and this survey shows that such an undemocratic position is completely unsustainable," said Nicola Sturgeon upon learning the results of Lord Ashcroft's poll.

The Scottish Government will study the most appropriate dates to organize the second referendum throughout this summer. It will be after the break when the steps to follow will be announced, which will depend on the direction that Brexit takes in the hands of Boris Johnson.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • UK
  • Boris johnson
  • European Union
  • Brexit
  • Scotland independence

United Kingdom Why does the EU and the United Kingdom peek into the abyss of 'no deal'?

BrexitThe UK debt will exceed 2 billion euros if there is no EU exit agreement

United KingdomThe European Union collides with Boris Johnson