The Tories are “finished” at the next general election, Humza Yousaf has said.
The First Minister was addressing the STUC Congress in Dundee on Tuesday, where he addressed the upcoming general election, which he described as the “big political event on the Horizon” and is due to take place this year.
Mr Yousaf said that “virtually everything” the UK Government has done since the Tories took office in 2010 “has made life harder for ordinary families, for working people, for minority groups up and down this country”. But Scottish Tory chairman Craig Hoy said the First Minister was attempting to “deflect attention from his own Government’s failures”.
The Scottish Greens have said they will field at least 32 candidates north of the border at the general election – their highest number ever.Scotland on Monday, Humza Yousaf said his coalition partners – whom he has repeatedly praised, referring to the deal between the two as “worth its weight in gold” – were unlikely to win a seat in Scotland but could detract from their shared goal of separation.
“And with the greatest of respect to my Green colleagues, they’re not going to win a Westminster seat in Scotland.”
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