July 13, 2014, 11:28 amUpdated: December 7, 2015, 4:40 pm
Scotland could face another independence referendum within four years even if it votes No this September, according to one of the nation’s leading electoral experts.
Professor Patrick Dunleavy explained at a seminar in London last week that should the Tories win next year’s General Election and hold a vote on Britain’s membership of the EU in 2017 as promised, a situation could emerge in which the UK left Europe but the majority of Scots voted to stay in.
He warned: “There’s a risk this referendum this year will be questioned. We could have a push to re-do the referendum within four years.”
Prof Dunleavy, of the London School of Economics, previously shook up the independence debate when he questioned Treasury figures for an independent Scotland’s set-up costs.
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