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The rest of the UK generally supports Scotland remaining a part of the UK. YouGov polling between late 2019 and early 2022 shows that support for Scottish independence is at around 30%, while support for Scotland remaining in the UK is at around 45%. [244]
On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the EU in a referendum. The Scottish Government advocates that Scotland should be a member of the EU both as a part of the UK and as an independent state. [133] Until 2020, the United Kingdom was a member state of the European Union, and therefore part of the European Single Market and Customs Union.
The independence movement consists of many factions with varying political views. The SNP wants Scotland to keep the monarchy (see personal union) and become an independent Commonwealth realm, similar to Canada or Australia. Others—such as the SSP and Solidarity—want Scotland to become an independent republic.
One common proposal is for the independence of Scotland from the UK; this would mean Scotland would once again become a sovereign state. There was an independence referendum in 2014 in which Scottish residents voted to remain within the United Kingdom, however this debate has been reignited due to the Brexit process, with the Scottish ...
Scotland was a member of the European Union, as part of the United Kingdom, but left the union following the UK wide vote to leave the European Union, despite Scotland voting to remain in the European Union in the 2016 referendum.
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Scotland should become independent, separate from the UK and the European Union; Scotland should become independent, separate from the UK but part of the European Union; Scotland should remain part of the UK, with its own elected parliament which has some taxation powers
The white paper Scotland's Future identified five key reasons that a currency union 'would be in both Scotland and the UK's interests immediately post-independence': Scotland's main trading partner is the UK (two-thirds of exports in 2011); 'companies operating in Scotland and the UK [...have] complex cross-border supply chains'; there is high ...