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Britons are increasingly embracing free trade and becoming less supportive of protectionism, new research from the National Centre for Social Research reveals.

A new report from the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) has revealed that 4.4% of the population of Great Britain worked in the gig economy in the last 12 months, amounting to some 2.8 million people.

The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge have been awarded the contract to provide the next four years of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) Rolling Programme.

Scottish voters want decisions about issues that are already devolved, such as fishing and farming, to be made in post Brexit Scotland by the Scottish Government - but would like to keep the same rules as the rest of the UK on reserved issues such as trade and immigration.

John Curtice, Senior Research Fellow here at NatCen, is due to knighted in the New Year’s Honours list.