Humza Yousaf has called an emergency cabinet meeting this morning to scrap his governing deal with the Scottish Greens. The SNP agreed to run the government with the Greens, who have seven seats, in 2021 under the Bute House agreement. They will now run a minority government with 63 MSPs…

The SNP scrapped its own target to cut emissions by 75% by 2030 to widespread ridicule as the Greens promised a vote to its members on whether to keep the Bute House deal going. Humza Yousaf said this week that SNP members weren’t to be given a say because they “already had a vote” on it years before. Hilarious…

Scottish Green members would have voted overwhelmingly to ditch the SNP while their politicians were still pretty keen to stay in power. Leaving Yousaf with one option…

UPDATE:

Watch: Scottish Greens co-leaders Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie leaving Bute House

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— BBC Scotland News (@BBCScotlandNews) April 25, 2024

Silence is holy…

UPDATE II: The Scottish Greens have signalled they will support the Tories’ motion of no confidence. The end is in sight…