Another poll shows that Brexit hasn’t changed Scottish appetite for independence

Throughout the EU referendum campaign, we heard that Brexit would not only sink the UK economy but destroy the Union because Scots were likely to vote Remain. In the event there was a difference at the polls—38 per cent of Scots voted for Brexit, vs 52 per cent in the UK as a whole—but was it enough to destroy, or even threaten, the Union? Polls in the immediate aftermath showed an uptick for support for Scottish separation which has since ebbed away.

Kantar TNS has today published a poll showing that 53 per cent of Scots are against independence, which confirms the YouGov poll taken at the end of August showing 54 per cent of Scots against.

So this is pretty much where things were before the Brexit vote. During the referendum campaign, Scots were asked how their support for separation would change if England voted for Brexit and they tended to reply that it would harden support by three or four percentage points.