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(32 minutes later) | |
Chris Mason | |
Political editor | |
To | |
sit in Bute House this lunchtime and listen to the first minister of Scotland | |
was to hear fallibility, human and political. | |
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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