Humsa faces no-confidence vote as SNP’s powersharing deal with Greens collapses

Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf during a press conference at Bute House, Edinburgh, after he scrapped his party’s powersharing agreement with the Scottish Greens. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/PA Wireis facing a vote of no confidence after he scrapped his party’s powersharing agreement with the Scottish Greens and vowed to govern as a minority government.

The collapse of the SNP-Green coalition came after Mr Yousaf last week dumped some of Scotland’s climate targets, sparking fury from the Greens.Donald Trump’s claim to immunity from prosecution to be heard by US supreme court todayAt a press conference earlier at Bute House, Edinburgh, the SNP leader said the powersharing agreement had “served its purpose”, and argued the break would allow his party to govern “on our policy terms”.

Mr Yousaf denied that the decision had exposed the SNP’s weakness and insisted that he had shown “leadership”. But Greens co-leader Lorna Slater said that “by ending the agreement in such a weak and thoroughly hopeless way, Humza Yousaf has signalled that when it comes to political co-operation he can no longer be trusted”.

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