Would you bet on Scotland staying in the union? Isabel Hardman asks Hamish Macdonell, my former Scotsman colleague, in a podcast she presented this morning. Its about a minute from the end:
Hamish says he thinks 51/49 -- which means, of course, it’s too close to call. The opinion polls tell one story, but there is another metric: the betting markets. Two weeks ago they had ‘yes’ on just 16 per cent, and today this has doubled to 34 per cent. The below graph shows how the odds have changed (data drawn from Betfair).
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William Hill has lengthened their odds for a NO vote to 2/5 – it had been as short as 1/10. It released this statement earlier:-
'Odds for a Yes vote have shortened steadily since the second tv debate, prior to which they were 11/2, and by Saturday they had come down to 11/4, but the poll putting Yes ahead has coincided with further betting support so we have reacted accordingly and cut the odds to their shortest price yet.
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