article: In a series of tweets, Nicola Sturgeon said she would set out the way forward "in due course after talking to people across the SNP". And she insisted she would take decisions in the best interests of Scotland, and not just her party. She will face calls at Holyrood later to abandon her plans for a referendum. MSPs are expected to use a debate on the economy to argue that the continuing prospect of another vote on independence would cause damaging uncertainty for businesses. But Scottish government ministers, who did not discuss an independence referendum in their first cabinet meeting since the election, will argue that the main threat to the economy is Brexit. Ms Sturgeon has previously said she will "reflect carefully" on her plans after the SNP lost 21 seats in the general election, but had conceded that her call for a second vote on leaving the UK was a factor in the result. She had called in March for a referendum to be held either towards the end of next year or the spring of the following year, "when the terms of Brexit are known". On Wednesday morning, the first minister tweeted that much of the media speculation about the implications of the election result for her referendum plans was "nonsense". She added: "I'll set out way forward in due course after talking to people across @theSNP. "I'll take decisions in best interests, not just of @theSNP, but of Scotland...and not be dictated to by demands for quick headlines!" She went on to say that her government would focus on trying to influence Brexit talks - and repeated her claim that a "Tory led hard Brexit is simply not acceptable" in the wake of the election result. Will the SNP abandon independence? No. Will they abandon a referendum as the conduit through which independence is achieved? Absolutely not. So what are they doing? Well, they may need to change the nature of the language. I think they feel that they didn't get across sufficiently the point that the referendum they want on independence is at the end of the Brexit process. They kept saying: "When the prime minister says there shouldn't be a referendum now, we agree". So I think they will try and re-emphasise that. That will not be sufficient for their pro-Union opponents, who will say they don't care how it is rebranded or that it is being placed in contradistinction to Brexit - it is not wanted and it is not needed. Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, who saw the number of Scottish Tory MPs rise from one to 13, has claimed that the SNP's losses in the election meant that "Indyref2 is dead". In what will be the first formal chance for MSPs to debate the general election result, the Tories, Labour and the Liberal Democrats will call on the SNP to shelve plans for another referendum. The Holyrood debate on "opportunities for growth" follows publication of the State of the Economy report by the Scottish government's chief economist. The report confirmed growth overall in
summary: Scotland's first minister has branded speculation about the impact of the general election on her plans for an independence referendum as "nonsense".