![\"BREXIT-SPLIT-SCOTLAND\"\/](\"https:\/\/cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk\/dynamic\/205\/photos\/85000\/620x\/BREXIT-SPLIT-SCOTLAND-727245.jpg\")
<\/p>\nNew data suggests Britain leaving the European Union presents a \u201cclear and present danger to the future of the UK\u201d. <\/p>\n
If Brexit were reversed, however, support for both nations remaining within the union swings back the other way. <\/p>\n
The polls were conducted by Deltapoll for pro-EU campaign Best for Britain, which said the results \u201cominously threaten the union as we know it\u201d.<\/p>\n
When asked how they would vote on Scotlands future after Britain leaves the EU, 47% said they would want independence \u2013 with just 43% saying they would want to remain. <\/p>\n
Related Articles<\/p>\n
Meanwhile in Northern Ireland, 52% of voters said they would support a united Ireland outside Britain if it leaves the EU, with 39% favouring the province staying in the UK.<\/p>\n
But support for a united Ireland would shrink to just 35% if Brexit does not go ahead.<\/p>\n
Best for Britain chief executive Eloise Todd said: \u201cThis is compelling evidence as to why we need to stop and think again.<\/p>\n
\n <\/p>\n
GETTY\n <\/p>\n
SPLIT: New data suggests the UK could lose Scotland and Northern Ireland <\/p>\n
\u201cThe public deserve a say on the final deal, with the knowledge that if Brexit happens we could shatter the union altogether.\u201d <\/p>\n
Voters in both Scotland and Northern Ireland overwhelmingly voted to remain part of the EU in the 2016 referendum despite the UK as a whole voting to leave.<\/p>\n
Related articles<\/p>\n
<\/a><\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New data suggests Britain leaving the European Union presents a \u201cclear and present danger to the fut..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":90796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\n