the SNP is facing a very serious, even existential, problem which could destroy it, and Nicola Sturgeon is well aware of this fact. A Survation opinion poll for the Daily Mail last September showed one-third of Scots would be less likely to vote SNP if the party’s 2016 election manifesto contained a commitment to hold a second independence referendum. It reflected the fact that many Scottish voters, pathologically anti-Conservative but hugely disenchanted with Labour, want the SNP to run a devolved Scotland while rejecting its separatist agenda.
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