Sturgeon resignation accelerated SNP’s poll decline, say experts
by Neil Pooran
Feb 15, 2024
2 minutes
The year since Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation announcement has accelerated a decline in the SNP’s opinion poll leads, experts have said.
However, support for Scottish independence has hardly changed at all in the 12 months since Ms Sturgeon’s Bute House announcement, and has instead proved “stubbornly unwilling to fall”.
Pollster Mark Diffley, a former director of Ipsos Mori in , said the and the related upturn in support for Labour meant the upcoming general election would be the most competitive in Scotland since 2010.
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