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A vote about independence for Wales should be held if there is no second Brexit vote - according to Plaid leader Adam Price.

Adam Price has followed Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon and reiterated that if Brexit goes ahead without the terms of the deal being put to voters, there should be a referendum about independence for Wales.

Mrs Sturgeon told Holyrood on Wednesday that she will begin plans for a second referendum on Scottish independence by 2021 if Scotland is taken out of the EU.

In the light of her comments, Mr Price has reiterated comments previously made saying that Wales could do the same if Brexit were to happen without a second vote.

Mr Price said: "We now know what Brexit really means – chaos and untold devastation on our communities, industries and economy.

"If Wales suffers being taken out of the EU without a People’s Vote, then it should hold its own referendum on independence.

"In the face of such a huge constitutional shift, the people of Wales must have the right to decide their own future – be it a brighter future as an independent country at the heart of Europe or as a forgotten second-class region in a dying British state.

" We also know there’s likely to be an independence referendum in Scotland - and possibly in northern Ireland too, in the event of a crash out Brexit. It is vital that the people of Wales are asked the same question."

His latest statement comments further than his speech made at the party conference last month, and is a step on from his pledge just after he was elected leader, when he said that if Plaid got into power in the Assembly elections due to be held in 2021, the party would introduce a Welsh Independence Referendum Act "at the earliest possible opportunity" allowing them to call a referendum "by the end of the decade at the latest".

But how much support is there for Welsh independence?

In December 2018, Sky News carried out a poll on Welsh independence.

In that, 8% of people said they believed Wales should become independent from the UK and when asked if there were an independence referendum tomorrow, 67% said they would vote against Wales becoming an independent country.

The poll asked questions to 1,014 Sky customers in Wales.

One was:

“Which of these statements comes closest to your view?”

The National Assembly for Wales should have more powers: 40%

We should leave things as they are now: 23%

There should be no devolved government in Wales: 18%

Wales should become independent, separate from the UK: 8%

Don’t know: 7%

The National Assembly for Wales should have fewer powers: 4%

Another question was:

“If there were a referendum tomorrow on the issue of Wales becoming an independent country, how would you vote?”

I would vote against Wales becoming an independent country: 67%

I would vote in favour of Wales becoming an independent country: 17%

Don’t know: 13%

I would not vote: 4%

The BBC carried out different research in February 2019 for its annual St David's Day poll.

That found that support for independence was 7% - the same level as the year before, but 1% up on 2017. The highest % that poll has found was in 2010 and again in 2011, when support for independence was 11%.

Those results came after ICM Unlimited interviewed a representative sample of 1,000 adults aged 18+ by telephone between February 7 and 23 2019.