Polls put Scottish unionists a nose ahead as vote approaches

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By Guy Faulconbridge, Alistair Smout and Angus MacSwan EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Supporters of keeping Scotland in the United Kingdom have clawed back a tiny lead over separatists less than a week before Scots vote in an independence referendum that is balanced on a knife edge, opinion surveys showed on Friday. A YouGov survey for The Times put Scottish unionists on 52 percent with separatists on 48 percent while a Guardian/ICM poll put unionists on 51 percent and separatists on 49 percent, excluding those who said they did not know how they would vote. ...




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