On Thursday, Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, made the sudden choice to tear up the Bute Home settlement. The deal was reached in August 2021, between the previous Scottish Nationwide occasion (SNP) chief Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish Inexperienced occasion co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, to encourage cooperation between the 2 events.
“In one of the sudden twists to this whole saga, and a twist that I don’t imagine that Humza would ever have envisaged was sensible, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater made clear that they had been ready to do what was beforehand unthinkable,” the Guardian’s Scotland editor, Severin Carrell, tells Michael Safi. “And that was again a Scottish Conservative movement of no confidence in opposition to Humza Yousaf.”
Inside days of Yousaf’s choice to chop ties with the Greens, he discovered himself in a political disaster. On Monday he introduced his resignation.
The Guardian’s Scotland correspondent, Libby Brooks, explains what his choice to step down means for the way forward for the SNP, its normal election prospects and the independence motion.
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