Support for monarchy in Scotland drops to 45%, poll shows

Survey suggests Scots are more interested in World Cup than Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

The Queen inspecting the Balaklava Company, a Scottish military division, at Balmoral in August

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The royal family has work to do to appeal to people in Scotland, those who are young and of ethnic minority communities, according to a new poll.

Six in 10 people (58 per cent) in Britain would like to keep the monarchy for the foreseeable future, while a quarter believe the end of the Queen’s reign would be the right time for the country to become a republic, the survey suggested.

Nevertheless 85 per cent expect there will still be a monarchy in a decade’s time.