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Sturgeon posed with a copy of English newspaper The Sun in May 2016, said paper having printed what are now considered to be lies about the [[Hillsborough disaster]] in 1989. The event took place just days following verdicts of an inquest into the tragedy 27 years prior in which 97 people died. Hugh Kerr left the party in protest, branding the first minister's actions as "crassly insensitive".<ref>[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14467674.former-mep-quits-snp-sturgeons-endorsement-sun/ Former MEP quits SNP over Sturgeon's 'endorsement' of The Sun]</ref>
Sturgeon posed with a copy of English newspaper The Sun in May 2016, said paper having printed what are now considered to be lies about the [[Hillsborough disaster]] in 1989. The event took place just days following verdicts of an inquest into the tragedy 27 years prior in which 97 people died. Hugh Kerr left the party in protest, branding the first minister's actions as "crassly insensitive".<ref>[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14467674.former-mep-quits-snp-sturgeons-endorsement-sun/ Former MEP quits SNP over Sturgeon's 'endorsement' of The Sun]</ref>
In October 2016, Sturgeon started spreading [[conspiracy theories]] about then-UK Prime Minister [[Theresa May]], claiming that she had been endorsed by [[Marine Le Pen]].<ref>[https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/719046/Embarrassment-for-Nicola-Sturgeon-as-Marine-Le-Pen-endorsement-of-Theresa-May-is-a-HOAX Embarrassment for Sturgeon as Marine Le Pen endorsement of Theresa May is a HOAX]</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>
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>