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Humza Yousaf latest updates: Scotland's first minister considers quitting - BBC News Humza Yousaf latest updates: Scotland's first minister to resign 'as early as Monday' - BBC News
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Humza Yousaf has reportedly ruled out cutting a deal with Alba, a pro-independence party formed by former First Minister Alex Salmond after he broke from the SNP. Kenny MacAskill, the East Lothian MP who served as Scotland's justice secretary before moving to Westminster and defecting to Alba, told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland that Alba’s only MSP Ash Regan has been back in contact with the first minister.
The party only has one MSP, Ash Regan, but that single vote would give the SNP a tie in any confidence vote and save the first minister - assuming all members of his own party backed him. He said Alba's demands had not changed, but no meeting has been put in place yet.
Yesterday we reported Salmond had set out his terms for any such deal with the SNP. MacAskill said it would be an “absurd situation” for Yousaf to resign when there was an “opportunity for the SNP to get back on the independence track” through a pact with Alba.
He said it would rely on a renewed push for Scottish independence, and a shift from "identity politics" to the "people's priorities". However, he said the Alba party was not there to simply “prop up” the SNP.
Salmond would also want the SNP to support his plan for a referendum on whether the Scottish Parliament should have the legal right to hold a new vote on independence, something which only Westminster can approve now. He said the party was ready for an election but added: “It’s probably not what the Scottish people want.”
It seems unlikely Yousaf is going to take him up on that offer.
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