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Nicola Sturgeon voted ‘best performing’ party leader in UK

Monday, 11 January 2021 7:02 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 11 January 2021 7:02 PM ]

Nicola Sturgeon dominates the UK political landscape with her strong leadership style and widespread popularity extending beyond Scotland

Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, continues to gain in popularity at the expense of other national leaders, notably Boris Jonson, according to the latest opinion poll.

An Opinium poll for the Observer places Sturgeon’s popularity rating at 43 percent. By contrast, Boris Jonson scores a popularity rating of just 37 percent and labor leader has 40 percent.

The survey, which talked to 2,003 people online, was conducted on January 6-7 across the UK.

A Scottish breakdown of the survey shows 57 per cent of people in Scotland approve of the way Sturgeon is handling her role both as First Minister and leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP).

The poll also finds 65 percent of people in Scotland disapprove of the way Johnson has fulfilled his role as Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, 63 percent of respondents across the UK say Johnson should resign with immediate effect.

SNP deputy leader, Keith Brown, was quick to link the poll’s findings to the quest for Scottish independence.

“Faced with the chaotic and incompetent leadership of Boris Johnson and a Westminster system which treats Scotland as an afterthought at best, more and more people are deciding that the best way forward for Scotland’s right to choose a future as an equal, independent country in the EU [European Union]”, Brown said in a statement.

"We [Scotland] have the right to determine our own future", Brown added.

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Successive opinion polls show a majority support for Scottish independence, thus bolstering the SNP’s case for a fresh independence referendum.

Most significant of all, a poll by Ipsos MORI last October found that 58 percent of the Scottish people would vote yes to Scottish independence if a referendum was held tomorrow.