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It is 32 minutes past

two on Thursday the 11th of March. I'm Lucy White in Glasgow and today I'm joined by. I'm Phil Sim

working from home in North Berwick. I'm Lindsay Bues at Holyrood. And John Curtis working from

home in Glasgow and otherwise Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde.

Professor Sir John Curtis joined us again. Welcome to the podcast.

I'm delighted to be here. It's getting to be interesting now that the election is only eight weeks away.

And of course, we've recently had the political theatre of six hours of Alex Salman and eight hours of the first minister.

Yes, we are delighted to have you. And this is your second time on political. So we want to talk to you about lots of things today.

And we've had some recent polls which suggest perhaps a slight shift in voting intentions as we hathered up to the election,

perhaps a slight shift back towards no rather than yes when it comes to those who favour independence

or don't favour independence. What do you make of these polls that we've been seeing in recent weeks,

Professor Curtis? Well, the truth is there have

been signs of erosion in support for independence and also in support from the SMP, really probably

since much long since the turn of the year. That's the point at which we're beginning to get

signs of the numbers falling down. Now, we just have to remember, of course at which we're beginning to get signs of the numbers falling down.

Now, we just have to remember, of course, that we're comparing the SMPs positions and the position of yes now

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