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BBC Scotland's Drivetime has been hearing from the former Labour First Minister Henry McLeish about Humza Yousaf's stint. Chris Mason
McLeish resigned in 2001 after just over a year in charge due to an office expenses row, making him Scotland's shortest serving first minister. Political editor
He says it was a "very dignified" resignation speech from Humza Yousaf. To
"He handled it well; he in a real sense is a very decent person," McLeish says. sit in Bute House this lunchtime and listen to the first minister of Scotland
McLeish goes on to say: "I think he took the right decision at the right moment." was to hear fallibility, human and political.
"This will be a dark day for him. Resigning is a lonely experience... (but) he will start to realise, as a young person in politics, he's got a life ahead of him - probably a successful political life," he McLeish adds. A man still new to the highest
office here departing; Humza Yousaf tacitly acknowledging his decision to boot
the Scottish Greens out of government last week transformed a bumpy moment - they
were deeply unhappy already - into a politically fatal one. They returned the
favour for their expulsion by saying they’d help haul him out of government
too.
Having lost their votes and unwilling to countenance the support of Alex
Salmond’s Alba, the numbers for Yousaf didn’t add up.
So, he concluded,
better to voluntarily acknowledge this and resign than be humiliated by
arithmetic within days.
All this matters deeply for Scotland’s governance. But
it matters in Devizes as well as Dundee, for another spasm of chaos within the
Scottish National Party, so dominant here for so long, will broaden smiles
within the Labour Party.
Already hopeful of a swathe of gains in the urban
areas in, around and between Glasgow and Edinburgh come the general election,
further turmoil engulfing its biggest Scottish rival is a further fillip.
If Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer can capitalise on this moment, his path to Downing Street
opens up further.
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