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Humza Yousaf live updates: Scotland's first minister to resign 'as early as Monday' - BBC News | |
(32 minutes later) | |
James Cook | |
Scotland Editor, BBC News | |
As soon as Humza Yousaf ejected the Scottish | |
Greens from his government, he set the clock ticking on a race to find support | |
to sustain him in office. | |
None of his options was particularly | |
attractive. | |
He could have struck a deal | |
with Alex Salmond’s Alba party but, I was told in robust terms, that was a | |
non-starter. There was no way that Yousaf wanted to be beholden to the | |
former SNP leader, a man who is currently taking legal action against | |
the Scottish government after its mishandling of harassment complaints against him. | |
Yousaf did try, and fail, to win back the | |
Scottish Greens, trying to persuade them to support his minority government. | |
But Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater were insulted by the manner of their | |
dismissal from Bute House, furious about the potential impact on environmental | |
and social policy, and resolute that Yousaf, not necessarily the SNP, had to | |
go. | |
Finally, he could have tried to face down the | |
Greens and Alba, without offering any concessions or assurances, daring them to | |
bring down a fellow pro-independence politician. That was seen as an | |
unattractive, and potentially humiliating, option. | |
The clock had run out —the only other path | |
that remained was to quit. | |
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