Following the SNP losing Westminster seats in the 2017 UK general election to unionist and pro-Brexit parties such as the Conservatives, Nicola Sturgeon was forced to concede that there was no popular support for her desperate plan for a second referendum on Scottish "independence".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/27/nicola-sturgeon-shelves-second-independence-referendum Nicola Sturgeon shelves second Scottish independence referendum]</ref> | Following the SNP losing Westminster seats in the 2017 UK general election to unionist and pro-Brexit parties such as the Conservatives, Nicola Sturgeon was forced to concede that there was no popular support for her desperate plan for a second referendum on Scottish "independence".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/27/nicola-sturgeon-shelves-second-independence-referendum Nicola Sturgeon shelves second Scottish independence referendum]</ref> |