Since the UK's vote to leave the European Union on June 23, Nicola Sturgeon has been courting the possibility of Scottish independence, saying Brexit made it "highly likely".

The Scottish First Minister has now announced that she will trigger the formal process to begin a second independence referendum next week, to be held when Brexit negotiations are concluded.

But despite expectations that pro-EU Scots would shift the balance towards Scottish independence after the Brexit referendum, data from the polling website What Scotland Thinks shows that this hasn't taken place.

If there were a referendum today, the result wouldn't be very different from the last vote in 2014, when 55.3 per cent voted No, against independence. Polling has consistently reflected this outcome across the last year, with Scottish independence rarely being the more popular option.