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| Humza Yousaf will not resign as Scotland's first minister | Humza Yousaf will not resign as Scotland's first minister |
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| Mr Yousaf spoke to the media during a visit to an affordable housing development in Dundee | Mr Yousaf spoke to the media during a visit to an affordable housing development in Dundee |
| Humza Yousaf has said he will not resign as Scotland's first minister and intends to carry on in the role. | Humza Yousaf has said he will not resign as Scotland's first minister and intends to carry on in the role. |
| Mr Yousaf is fighting for his political future ahead of a no-confidence vote next week. | |
| He said he was confident he will win the vote, and that he hoped the Scottish Greens would change their mind about voting to remove him. | |
| He also said he would "absolutely" lead the SNP into the general election and the 2026 Holyrood election. | |
| Mr Yousaf denied claims by his opponents that he is now a "lame duck" first minister following the collapse on Thursday of the SNP's power-sharing agreement with the Greens. | |
| The two pro-independence parties had formed the Scottish government since 2021, with Mr Yousaf now planning to run a minority government in the Scottish Parliament. | The two pro-independence parties had formed the Scottish government since 2021, with Mr Yousaf now planning to run a minority government in the Scottish Parliament. |
| Humza Yousaf fights for his political future | |
| Can Yousaf survive as Scotland’s first minister? | |
| Mr Yousaf will write to opposition party leaders - including the Greens - later on Friday to ask them to meet with him in an attempt to "make minority government work". | Mr Yousaf will write to opposition party leaders - including the Greens - later on Friday to ask them to meet with him in an attempt to "make minority government work". |
| He said of the Greens: "I do hope they will reconsider their position because there is a lot of issues, a lot of priorities, that both the SNP and the Greens share". | |
| He said he hoped to work with them "issue by issue" in order to "deliver for the people of Scotland", but acknowledged that minority government was "tough". | |
| Mr Yousaf is battling to save his position as first minister after his former Green allies vowed to oppose him in a no confidence motion that was lodged by the Scottish Conservatives. The vote is expected to be held next week. | |
| With Labour and the Liberal Democrats also saying they will vote against him, Mr Yousaf is not guaranteed to win the vote and could need the support of Ash Regan in order to win by the narrowest of margins. | |
| Ms Regan is a former SNP MSP who was defeated by Mr Yousaf in last year's party leadership contest before later defecting to Alex Salmond's Alba Party. Mr Yousaf said at the time that she was "not a particularly great loss". | |
| Mr Yousaf would not be obliged to stand down if he loses the confidence vote - but would be expected to do so. | |
| Labour has also announced that they intend to hold a vote of no confidence in the Scottish government as a whole, which could lead to an election if it succeeds. | Labour has also announced that they intend to hold a vote of no confidence in the Scottish government as a whole, which could lead to an election if it succeeds. |
| Mr Yousaf's future could depend on the support of Alba MSP Ash Regan - who quit the SNP after losing to him in the party's leadership contest | |
| There was widespread unhappiness within the Greens after the government dropped a 2030 climate target, and over the decision by the Scottish NHS to pause the prescription of new puberty blockers young trans people. | |
| The party had been planning to ask its own members if it should continue its partnership with the SNP before Mr Yousaf took the decision to end it himself. | |
| Mr Yousaf has said that ending the power-sharing deal was the right thing to do, but he did not mean to upset or anger the Greens. | |
| Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie told the PA news agency on Friday that it was "pretty clear" that Mr Yousaf was not able to unite the Scottish Parliament. | |
| Mr Harvie said it was now up to the SNP to find a suitable leader, and that Mr Yousaf "needs to bear the consequences of that reckless and damaging decision" to scrap the agreement with the Greens just 48 hours after saying he had no intention of ending it. | |
| He added: "He still hasn't really given any clarity on why he made such a dramatic U-turn and broken a promise on which he was elected as first minister. | |
| "So it's very difficult to see how you can have a conversation that leads to a constructive outcome on the basis of that lack of trust." | |
| Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said she believed Mr Yousaf was "finished" regardless of the outcome of the confidence votes and said Scotland needed an election rather than simply a change of SNP leader. | |
| She said: "We've had enough. It's not just Humza Yousaf, it's actually his entire government that's failing," | |
| Related Topics | Related Topics |
| Scottish government | Scottish government |
| Scottish Greens | Scottish Greens |
| SNP (Scottish National Party) | SNP (Scottish National Party) |
| Humza Yousaf | Humza Yousaf |