Scottish independence: Poll suggests “Yes” camp is closing the gap
Support for a Scottish "Yes" vote is on the rise, and has closed the gap on the unionist "No" campaign by two percentage points according to a survey.
The ICM poll, for Scotland on Sunday, revealed that undecided voters were beginning to pick sides.
The "Yes" campaign saw its support up by four percentage points to 38 per cent in the last month, with the "No" camp gathering an extra two percentage points to 47 per cent.
The percentage of people yet to decide fell seven percentage points to 14 per cent.
The poll is just the latest to show the "No" group in the lead, but with enough undecided voters to swing the result the other way. When the undecided voters are stripped from the equation, the poll found the scores 55 per cent to 45 per cent, in favour of the unionists.
The Financial Times (FT) maintains a poll tracker, which allows for the aggregating of polls and a look at the FT's data shows that there is a fair amount of variation between different surveys and that no single result should be trusted in isolation.
Nevertheless, a winnowing of undecided voters is to be expected in the run up to an election that is just over a month away, on 18 September.
Scotland on Sunday is also reporting that Alex Salmond, Scottish First Minister and figurehead of the "Yes" campaign, is to "clarify" his stance on currency union, a key issue in the independence debate.