Kantar polls on Scotland and the General Election

Kantar put out a new poll today - while the name is new to British polling, the people and the company aren't - it's a rebranding of the more familiar TNS (Kantar is the parent company, part of WPP who bought TNS in 2008). Topling figures are CON 46%, LAB 24%, LDEM 11%, UKIP 8%, GRN 4% - very much in line with other recent polling - a towering Tory lead and UKIP falling back behind the Liberal Democrats. Full tabs are here.

Kantar also released some new Scottish polling, though the fieldwork was done done between 29th March and 11th April, so it's actually considerably older than the two Scottish polls at the weekend - presumably because it was done face-to-face, a more time consuming method. This means it was conducted after Nicola Sturgeon's call for a second referendum, but before Theresa May's call for an early election (meaning it didn't ask GE voting intention).

Asked about when a referendum on independence should be called, 44% named a preferred time, 46% didn't want one at all. 26% would prefer a referendum before Britain leaves the EU (19% in Autumn 2018, 7% in Spring 2018), 18% would prefer a referendum after Britain has left (11% in 2019 or 2020, 7% after 2020).

Asked how they would vote in a second Indyref 37% said Yes, 55% No, equating to YES 40%, NO 60% once don't knows are removed. This is the lowest support for YES in any Scottish poll for sometime... though I'd be cautious about reading too much into it. Remember the Panelbase and Survation Scottish polls at the weekend were conducted after this poll, and did not show any movement towards NO (Panelbase was 43% YES, 52% NO; Survation was 43% YES, 48% NO)

Full tabs for the Scottish poll are here.