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...Mark Diffley, founder of the Diffley Partnership, an Edinburgh-based polling company, said the result would help to “nullify” that line of attack....
...Diffley said the shift created a potential “nightmare scenario” for the SNP....
...“She’s good under pressure, a good communicator and good with the business community,” said Diffley....
...Despite the disruption, focus on the independence debate will probably dominate voters’ preferences, said Mark Diffley, founder of Edinburgh-based polling company, The Diffley Partnership....
...However, John Curtice, leading pollster and professor of politics at the University of Strathclyde, cautioned that the responses might reflect where respondents already stood and their feelings about the...
...“It’s part of a domestic agenda . . . where there are perceived weaknesses in the Scottish government’s delivery,” Diffley said....
...But Mark Diffley, a consultant on Scottish public opinion, said it would be “really, really difficult” for Sarwar to displace independence as the central battleground. Still, Sarwar has little choice....
...“This issue is potentially going to be a dominant feature of that campaign,” said Mark Diffley, a consultant on Scottish political opinion....
...“It’s probably the last thing the SNP would want,” said Mark Diffley, a consultant on Scottish public opinion....
...“She’s got better and better at being seen as a normal human being and becoming likeable, while at the same time not losing that reputation for competence,” Johns said....
...John Lamont, the Conservative MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, said it was not clear what extra powers should go to Edinburgh....
...“It’s probably irrelevant” to SNP hopes to retain power in the 2021 Scottish parliamentary elections, said Sir John....
...“If there are two issues that will get your average Tory voters riled up and to the polls it will be those two,” Mr Diffley said....
...Mark Diffley, a pollster, is fascinated by the psyche of voters who “want to leave everything”....
...“A no-deal Brexit is much less palatable in Scotland than in England,” said Mr Diffley....
...John Swinney, Scottish education secretary, said himself that this was“simply not good enough”....
...Grievance is one of the SNP’s “strongest cards”, Mr Diffley said. “Then you’ve got grievance writ large.”...
...“The latest Scottish GDP figures are grim,” said economist John McLaren. “This continues the longer term sluggish performance of the Scottish economy over the last three years relative to the UK.”...
...John Curtice, a polling expert at the University of Strathclyde, warns that almost all of those changes favour the Remain campaign....
...“Party discipline is pretty strong,” Mr Diffley says. A few SNP members have come out for leaving the EU....
...Even more moderate voters are only likely to desert if they see opposition parties as a credible parties of government, Mr Diffley says....
...The Mori poll found 81 per cent of SNP supporters would like another referendum within five years, points out John Curtice, professor of politics at Strathclyde university....
...John Curtice’s blog on opinion polls. 2. Mark Diffley, Research Director of Ipsos Mori, on why Labour’s decline pre-dates the independence referendum. 3....
...“It’s going to be tough, to put it mildly,” says Mark Diffley, director at polling company Ipsos Mori Scotland....
...“Labour are in real trouble,” said Mark Diffley, director of Ipsos Mori Scotland, a polling company....
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