LONDON, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced Tuesday the Scottish Nationalist Party is dropping an immediate demand for an independence referendum in Scotland.
Sturgeon said the Scottish government will reset its plans for Scottish independence, and instead will focus on securing a Brexit deal for Scotland that keeps her region in the European single market.
The SNP's change of emphasis comes after the party lost a third of its seats in the recent snap general election for the Westminster government.
Sturgeon said the people of Scotland should have a choice about their own destiny after Brexit negotiations have been concluded.
Opposition members at Holyrood in Edinburgh called instead for the idea of an independence referendum to be dropped altogether, with one member saying "the idea of independence is now dead".
