What is the effect of Brexit on support for Scottish independence?

Answer:
The evidence is mixed. Not all of the 60+% who vote to remain in the EU want independence.

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Is Brexit fuelling support for independence?

Author / Creator: John Curtice and Ian Montagu

Media type: Research Paper

Date published: 2021

Evidence suggests that while initially it had little discernible impact on the overall level of support for independence, more recently the pursuit of Brexit has served to increase support for leaving the UK.


The Legacy of Brexit John Curtice

Author / Creator: John Curtice

Media type: Report

Date published: February 2021

The decision to leave the EU has helped fuel an increase in support for independence in Scotland, where, in contrast to the rest of the UK, voters backed Remain in 2016 by 62% to 38%


Scotland and Europe

Author / Creator: Kirsty Hughes

Media type: Book

Date published: 2020

Brexit has worsened the relations between Scotland and UK.  The reduction in powers consequent on the Westminster taking all the powers "returned" from the EU into its own perview with out recognition the effect on devolved powers has yet to be resolved.


UK’s disastrous Brexit deal unravelling on three fronts

Author / Creator: Business for Scotland

Media type: Article

Date published:

The UK’s disastrous Brexit deal is falling to pieces as Boris Johnson’s government finds itself fighting on three fronts - Fishing, Ireland, EU.


Brexit and Territorial Preferences: Evidence from Scotland and Northern Ireland

Author / Creator: Lesley-Ann Daniels

Media type: Academic Paper

Date published:

The harder the border with EU, the more popular support in Scotland's independence is indicated. It follows the sentiment toward the EU closely.  In Northern Ireland the support for unification follows religious lines.


Brexit and the Scottish Question

Author / Creator: Sionaidh Douglas-Scott

Media type: Academic Paper

Date published:

The 2016 Scottish vote for remaining in the EU received no consideration by the UK government for possible special arrangements.  The prospect of a new independence referendum gains credibility as the constitutional convention on consultation was considered irrelevant by the UK government.


Brexit and the inevitability of Scottish Independence

Author / Creator: Paul Cairney

Media type: Assessment report

Date published:

Only independence can remove the democratic deficit.  Scottish independence is the cosmopolitan choice.  There will be some economic damage, uncertainty, and a new currency.  No has, in some ways, a stronger case in the second referendum but a far lower chance of success: it will lose because there will be no-one out there able to tell the No story.


Scottish independence trading costs calculated

Author / Creator: Douglas Fraser

Media type: web page

Date published:

There may be significant economic costs resulting from independence.  However, there is no reason Scotland cannot prosper as other small nations have. This report looks at the cumulative effect over 15 years.


How Brexit shapes people's views on Scottish independence

Author / Creator: John Curtice

Media type: web page

Date published:

A review of polls at January 2021 shows increasing support for independence, possibly due to Brexit.


Brexit, nationalism and disintegration in the European Union and the United Kingdom

Author / Creator: Ben Wellings

Media type: Academic Paper

Date published: 2020

The Brexit referendum opened up conflict between executive, parliamentary, national and popular sovereignties in the differing nations of the United Kingdom and had a noticeable effect on British disintegration.


Scotland’s new choice; Independence after Brexit

Author / Creator: Eve Hepburn

Media type: Book

Date published: 2021

Leading experts examine the key issues, opportunities and challenges surrounding the prospect of independence since UK’s decision to leave the European Union.