Luke Tryl
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People do talk about that issue in a slightly different way as well.
Yeah, absolutely.
And it's also the case that it's not just that people tend to be slightly more pro-immigration in Scotland.
That comes through in both polling and focus groups.
It's also a lower salience issue.
So people, when we ask people their top issues, I mean, I should say, you know, it's still levels of immigration are in third, asylum seekers crossing the channel is in fourth.
So it's still up there, but the percentages are lower than they are in England and Wales.
It just, you know, people are...
less likely to prioritise it as an issue.
Climate and the Environment, that's on 15% of Scots, select that as one of their top three issues.
So, you know, that's about comparable with the rest of England.
But again, I guess there is this sort of... Oh, so actually that's just a feel I'm getting from what the parties are saying as opposed to definitive proof that Scottish voters think differently from...
English or Welsh voters.
I think that might be the case.
And interestingly, when we did... You've heard of those MRP projections, where you look at individual seats and what they think about things.
And this wasn't on voting intention.
This was about concern about climate change.
And actually, the seat with the lowest concern about climate change in the whole of the UK was in Scotland, actually.
I believe it was a Dundee seat, or we'll have to...
double double check that so yes sometimes this can become a little bit of a of a myth but certainly on the immigration question there there is much more of a difference between England and Scotland and James just give us a sort of temperature check on where the constitutional conversation is at this point in the campaign