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# Scottish voters in favour of keeping the pound
- URL: https://www.frontlinepolicy.org.uk/blog/scots-keep-the-pound/
- Published: 2026-10-21T17:43:23.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T17:43:23.000Z
- Description: 91% of Scots with a view wanted to keep the pound, in a BMG poll I commissioned in 2017. Even SNP and Yes voters backed sterling.
- Author: Mev Brown
- Tags: Scotland, Independence, IndyRef2, SNP, Currency, Polling, #pre-2026

*Originally reported by the Sunday Express, 12 March 2017*

Of the Scots who expressed a view, 91 per cent wanted to keep the pound rather than create a new currency. That was the finding of a BMG poll of 1,009 voters that I commissioned, reported by the Sunday Express in March 2017: 68 per cent backed sterling, with just seven per cent against. Even SNP and Yes voters backed the pound. As I argued at the time, the only option voters would accept in an independent Scotland was "sterlingisation": Scottish banknotes replaced by Bank of England notes.

Read the original article: [Express.co.uk](https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/778000/scotland-currency-pounds-nicola-sturgeon-indyref2-snp?ref=frontlinepolicy.org.uk)