Summary
First Minister Humza Yousaf has announced his resignation. What happens now? The team chats about how events unfolded over the weekend, culminating in First Minister Humza Yousaf announcing his plans to resign on Monday, after just 13 months in post, following the fallout from his scrapping of the Bute House agreement with the Scottish Greens the previous week. With divisions in both the party and parliament exposed, are we now heading for a Holyrood election, or an internal SNP leadership election, and who might the candidates be? As names begin to be put forward, the team discuss what might happen next.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.4 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast that brings you the biggest stories coming out of Hollywood and Westminster. |
| 0:20.3 | It's 10.58 in the morning. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm David Wallace Locker, a political correspondent based out of Holly Rood. |
| 0:27.2 | And today I'm joined by... |
| 0:28.8 | I'm Lindsay Bews, a political correspondent also based at Holyrood. |
| 0:32.1 | And I'm Georgia Roberts, Westminster correspondent coming out of Westminster. |
| 0:37.3 | So, I think we have quite a lot to talk about. |
| 0:41.2 | Just a bit. |
| 0:42.1 | Because the last time we did one of these episodes, although I wasn't on it, was it was last Thursday. |
| 0:47.3 | Since then, we've had the resignation of the First Minister. |
| 0:51.2 | Lindsay, you've been around since last Thursday. |
| 0:54.2 | Have you slept? Oh, it's unraveled so. the First Minister. Lindsay, you've been around since last Thursday. Yes. |
| 0:54.4 | Have you slept? |
| 0:56.3 | Oh, it's unraveled so quickly. |
| 0:59.0 | It's really unraveled at a stunning speed for Humza Youssef, hasn't it? |
| 1:02.9 | Since he was last at Butte House on Thursday and I was there to listen to his press conference, |
| 1:08.5 | he was talking about ditching the greens and these |
| 1:11.1 | new beginnings for his government. And then back there again yesterday for the end for him, |
| 1:17.3 | it's all over. Hamza Yusuf had been trying over the weekend to find a way to survive that |
| 1:24.7 | vote of no confidence that the Tories had brought forward. The numbers |
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