MOST Scots have said the Scottish rate of income tax should be kept as it is.
The Ipsos Mori poll for STV said that 30 per cent of voters would back Scottish Labour’s plans to increase the tax rate by a penny, but 54 per cent want the status quo kept.
Although just under a third of Scots back the policy, the party are still struggling to attract voters, with 21 per cent saying they would back Labour in the constituency vote at May’s election. The SNP will attract 53 per cent of voters, with the Tories on 16 per cent and the Liberal Democrats on four per cent.
In the list vote, the SNP are on 49, Labour 21, the Tories on 15, the Lib Dems are on eight and the Greens on six. This, according to Weber Shandwick’s Scotland Votes tool, would put the SNP on 74 seats, Labour on 25, the Tories on 18, the Lib Dems on seven and the Greens on five.
Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick Harvie are the most popular leaders of political parties in Scotland with approval ratings of +39 and +19 respectively. Kezia Dugdale remains significantly more popular with Scottish voters than Jeremy Corbyn with an approval rating of +5 against his of -13. Ruth Davidson too is more popular than her Westminster colleague with a rating of +8 compared to David Cameron’s -38.
The poll also found that 51 per cent of Scots want Britain to get rid of all nuclear weapons. Although this falls to 44 per cent with 56 against scrapping the bombs “if other countries keep theirs”.
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