Scotland: SNP pulls further ahead in latest poll
The Edinburgh Evening News reports: SCOTTISH Nationalists have increased their lead over Labour and are on course to become the biggest party at Holyrood, a new opinion poll showed today.
The Populus survey put the SNP ten points ahead on the constituency vote and seven points ahead on the regional vote.
This would give the Nationalists 50 of the Scottish Parliament's 129 seats, Labour 43, the Liberal Democrats 18, the Tories 17 and the Greens one.
But the poll also showed support for independence, the SNP's core policy, was just 27 per cent, well down on other recent polls. -- Edinburgh Evening News - Politics - SNP stretch lead over Labour but support for independence is falling