{"id":87069,"date":"2025-10-27T20:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=87069"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T20:06:20","slug":"the-demands-for-independence-are-growing-by-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/27\/the-demands-for-independence-are-growing-by-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The demands for independence are growing by the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll reported in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25575325.yes-posts-huge-double-digit-lead-new-scottish-independence-poll\/?ref=eb&amp;nid=1948&amp;block=article_block_a&amp;u=209f984e64a4678025b914d40a952dd2&amp;date=271025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The National<\/a> (for whom I am a columnist) last night showed that support for Scottish independence appears to be growing rapidly:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-87070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-19.51.44-550x553.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-19.51.44-550x553.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-19.51.44-299x300.png 299w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-19.51.44-768x772.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-19.51.44-398x400.png 398w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-27-at-19.51.44.png 1204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/> Only a month ago, another survey run by the same pollster only found a four-point lead for Scottish independence. The ratio of support was 52% to 48% at that time. Excluding don't knows, it is now 55% to 45%.<\/p>\n<p>With Plaid Cymru having now won the Caerphilly by-election by a comfortable margin, the signs are that the demands for independence are growing by the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll reported in The National (for whom I am a columnist) last night showed that support for Scottish independence appears to be growing<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/10\/27\/the-demands-for-independence-are-growing-by-the-day\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,140,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scotland","category-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87073,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87069\/revisions\/87073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}