Nationalists and Unionists now neck and neck By Paul Hutcheon, Scottish Political Editor SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENCE HAS dropped slightly in the first opinion poll conducted since the SNP government's first parliamentary session in office. The TNS System Three survey shows that 39% of respondents want Alex Salmond's administration to negotiate for independence with Westminster, compared with 41% who oppose it. The percentage of Scots backing the break-up of the United Kingdom is down 2% in three months, but up 4% since August last year. Salmond wants to hold an independence referendum in 2010 as a prelude to entering talks with Westminster about creating a separate Scottish state. TNS has organised a quarterly tracker poll since last autumn based on the exact question Salmond would like to put to the electorate. He wants to ask...
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