Former coalition partners’ decision brings Scottish first minister to brink of losing vote, which could make his position untenable
Humza Yousaf could be forced to quit as Scotland’s first minister next week after the Scottish Greens announced they would back a Conservative motion of no confidence against the man who “betrayed” the Greens by unilaterally ending a coalition deal.
The SNP is two votes short of a majority at Holyrood. Yousaf now has to rally every vote from his deeply split party and must also secure the backing of a former SNP minister, Ash Regan, whoIf the result is tied, Holyrood’s presiding officer, Alison Johnstone, a former Green MSP, will have to make a casting vote in favour of Yousaf under the protocol that presiding officers vote for the status quo.
Harvie said the Bute House agreement had very clear processes for sorting out policy disagreements, which allowed both parties to change their stance. Yousaf, however, he said, “chose to rip it up, and that can’t be consequence-free”. “And it abruptly ends the pro-independence majority government which the public voted for, and which members of both parties supported.”
The catalyst for the crisis had been his government’s decision last week to abandon its “world-leading” target to cut Scotland’s carbon emissions by 75% by 2030, a move that provoked an open rebellion by Scottish Green party members.Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty Images He made clear the SNP would soon abandon or water down some policies it had previously championed, now that government policy was no longer framed by the agreement. “We will of course, have to be very wise and careful around the battles that we choose to fight, and we will be absolutely and entirely focused on the people of Scotland’s priorities,” he said.
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