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Hello and welcome to coffee house shots. I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by

Fraser Nelson and Katie Bolts. It's been a turbulent week in Scottish politics

and first Minister Humse of seems seems unable to catch a break.

In the last 48 hours you've seen the breakdown of the SMP Green Coalition,

a rather angry press conference by the Greens,

multiple no conference votes being lodged,

and resignation fears sparked after

humsies have pulled out of a talk at Strathclyd uni today. We've just heard that he

will be giving an announcement and Dundee on affordable housing. But Katie

can you tell us a little bit more about how exactly

Hums Eusev and the S&P's got to this point and also what's going on with all these

votes of no confidence? Yeah I think it's fair to say that Holmes of

usev is facing the biggest crisis of his leadership today and it feels as though yesterday

on the podcast we're talking about you know well he must have really thought about this

when he pulled out the agreement with the Greens and he must have thought about the different places this could go.

You look at what's happening now and you do just get the sense that I think events are spiraling outside of his control.

So you've had a few developments as of this morning.

I mean, I think he pulled out of a speech at university.

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