A new opinion poll shows the majority of Scots support Scottish Independence ahead of next year's Holyrood election.
A survey carried out by Savanta found 53% of the public backed the creation of a new independent Scottish state compared to 47% who would vote no - the same figures that emerged in a rival poll by Survation last month.
The data also showed that 50% of people said they would vote SNP in the the first-past-the-post constituency ballot at May’s Scottish Parliament poll.
In the list vote under the hybrid Holyrood system the SNP would gain 41% of the vote.
Taken together, that outcome would deliver a crushing victory for Nicola Sturgeon's party.
Douglas Ross' Scottish Conservatives sit at 23% in the constituency vote, while Richard Leonard's Labour polled 18%.
On list voting intentions, the SNP dropped 1% to 41% from last month's Survation poll, with the Tories on 21% and Labour at 18%.
Although there has been a slight drop in support for the SNP since last month in the constituency poll, Sturgeon remains on course to earn a Holyrood majority.
With the SNP set to put their IndyRef2 demand front and centre of their election manifesto, such a majority would be presented as a clear mandate for another independence referendum in Scotland.
Boris Johnson's Tory Government in Westminster has repeatedly ruled out another poll and the prospect of a decisive Holyrood win for the SNP sets up another likely constitutional clash with Westminster over the future of Scotland.
South of the border, Sir Keir Starmer saw his recent lead over Johnson in the polls cut back, with Labour and the Conservatives neck and neck at 40%.
And there was more woe for the Liberal Democrats in the Westminster survey, polling at just 6% in the whole of the UK - the same as the SNP.
