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# Scottish voters deliver strong message to Nicola Sturgeon
- URL: https://www.frontlinepolicy.org.uk/blog/scots-message-to-sturgeon/
- Published: 2026-10-21T17:37:09.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-21T17:38:43.000Z
- Description: 83% of Scots with a view wanted Nicola Sturgeon to put public services ahead of another independence referendum, in a BMG poll I commissioned in 2017.
- Author: Mev Brown
- Tags: Scotland, Independence, IndyRef2, SNP, Polling, #pre-2026

*Originally reported by the Scottish Daily Express, 6 March 2017*

Of the Scots who expressed a view, 83 per cent said Nicola Sturgeon should put improving public services ahead of another independence referendum. That was the finding of a BMG poll of 1,009 Scots that I commissioned, run as an exclusive by the Scottish Daily Express in March 2017\. Overall, 59 per cent backed public services first, with only 12 per cent disagreeing. A majority, 54 per cent, also felt Scotland's political class was more talk than action on the problems facing ordinary people, after a decade of SNP government in which schools slipped down the rankings and the NHS missed its targets.

Read the original article: [Express.co.uk](https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/775364/Scotland-independence-poll-voters-message-Nicola-Sturgeon-SNP?ref=frontlinepolicy.org.uk)