The alliance came under fire in the press over the weekend, but SNP MP says it 'remains the right thing'.
The SNP's former Westminster leader has said the party's pact with the Scottish Greens will remain in place until 2026.
Scottish Greens co-leader and minister Patrick Harvie said his party being in government "scares some people". Over the weekend there was speculation about the future of the coalition in the press. Former Scottish Greens leader Robin Harper told theHe also said the Bute House Agreement would result in both the SNP and Greens losing votes.Herald on SundayReiterating his call for a vote on the deal, the MSP for Inverness and Nairn said: "The Greens are seen as primarily responsible for a whole series of policy disasters over the last two years.
"If we focus particularly on the folk who voted for the SNP, well here the polling suggests that somewhere between a half of and two-thirds of people who voted for the SNP in 2021 are in favour of the arrangement. "That's three points up on what they got in May 2021 and the polls have been pretty consistently of that order ever since the arrangement was brokered back in August 2021."
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