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Humza Yousaf resigns as Scotland’s First Minister
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Humza Yousaf is set to resign as Scottish First Minister, according to reports, after spending the weekend desperately reaching out to opposition parties in the hope they would save him from the pending vote of no confidence.
Mr Yousaf, who has served as First Minister and leader of the SNP for 13 months, has come to the conclusion, however, that his position ‘is no longer tenable’.
This morning multiple outlets report that senior SNP figures have been told that their bruised and beleaguered party chief decided this weekend that there is no way for him to survive Thursday’s vote.
His resignation may come as soon as today.
While Scotland and the UK waited with bated breath at the weekend, the death knell for Mr Yousaf’s political career came yesterday when both the prospect of being saved by the Scottish Greens and Alba disintegrated.
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Mr Yousaf has concluded that the jig is up (Image: Getty)
With the SNP’s 63 MSPs, the vote was set to be on a knife edge.
The Greens, Tories, Labour and LibDem have 64 MSPs between them, leaving Alba’s Ash Regan with the deciding vote.
Ms Regan, whom Mr Yousaf insulted as “no great loss” when she defected to Alex Salmond’s party last year, was demanding concessions from the SNP before announcing which way she’d cast her vote.
However Mr Yousaf refused a pact with Alex Salmond’s party that would have required the SNP to not fight some Scottish seats at the election.
Meanwhile, the SNP’s Ian Blackford yesterday made a humiliating apology to the Scottish Greens, only to be slapped down by Greens co-leader Lorna Slater minutes later.
Ms Slater accused Mr Yousaf or irreparably losing their confidence and trust.
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The Greens said yesterday that opposing Mr Yousaf is now an absolute for them (Image: Getty)
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She added that opposing Mr Yousaf is now a “red line” for the party, and they will not vote for him under any circumstances.
“What we have said is the Scottish Green group will vote in support of the vote of no confidence against Humza Yousaf, and I cannot imagine anything at this point that could change that position.
“This was a spectacular breach of trust, from going on Tuesday to saying the Bute House Agreement was ‘worth its weight in gold’ to stopping it on Thursday. That’s broken.”
Asked whether Mr Yousaf could offer anything to the Greens to get them to change their mind, Ms Slator said: “That is not what we’re looking at just now”.
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“[Our coalition] was based on mutual trust and respect, and I do have trust and respect for many of my SNP colleagues but Humza Yousaf himself has broken that and he needs to face the consequences.”
Two MSPs seen as prospective replacements for Mr Yousaf are his former leadership rival Kate Forbes and the Scottish Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.
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Ms Forbes, thought to be to the right of Mr Flynn, surprised many last year when she fell short of defeating Mr Yousaf by just 2,100 votes.
A member of the Free Church of Scotland, many on the left criticised her views on abortion, premarital sex, same-sex marriage and trans rights.
Mr Flynn, a confident performer in Westminster, would be forced to fight a by-election to enter Holyrood should he want the top job.
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