Scottish voters in favour of keeping the pound
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.
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.
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