First Minister’s Questions 22 June 2023

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:02.0	General questions concluded.
0:05.0	The next item of business is First Minister's questions.
0:08.0	And at question number one, I call Douglas Ross.
0:11.0	Thank you very much, Presiding Officer.
0:14.0	This week, veteran SMP, MSP, Fergus Ewing, voted against his own government
0:19.0	when he refused to support Humza-Yusuf's decision
0:22.5	to back Green Minister Lorna Slater in a vote of no confidence.
0:27.3	There are reports that he is going to sack Fergus Ewing because of this?
0:31.5	Is he?
0:33.7	First Minister.
0:34.7	I'm not going to go into issues that are matters for our group.
0:39.5	What I will say to Douglas Ross is I am not going to take any lectures on leadership from
0:44.2	Douglas Ross.
0:45.8	Douglas Ross, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, who just this week was unable to muster his own Scottish Tory MPs
0:58.6	to vote to sanction Boris Johnson.
1:02.0	He says, Douglas Ross says they did.
1:04.4	Of course, the soon-to-be Lord Jack did not.
1:07.6	So let's be honest, Douglas Ross isn't the leader of a Scottish Conservatives,
1:10.8	it is the Cabinet's man in Scotland, Alistair Jack.
1:13.9	Douglas Ross, well, let's start the number of areas. This is a government issue because
1:21.4	it was a government vote of no confidence in a government minister. And surely Humza Yusuf
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