Support for Scotland staying in UK at 53%: Ipsos
47% of Scots support for independence and 4% were still undecided
London: Supporters of keeping Scotland within the United Kingdom held a 6 percentage-point lead in a final independence opinion poll which was published as voters were taking part in the referendum on whether Scotland should break the 307-year-old union.
The Ipsos Mori poll for the London Evening Standard newspaper put support for staying within the UK at 53%, with support for independence at 47%. It said 4% of Scots who were certain to vote were still undecided.
Scots were voting in the referendum on Thursday, with the result expected to come early Friday morning.REUTERS
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