Is the SNP government hanging by a thread?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Scotland's First Minister is facing a confidence vote after he pulled the plug this morning on his coalition government by ejecting the two Green party members of his cabinet.
Humza Yousaf is making the case for a fresh start - unburdened by culture wars issues and climate change issues pulling the SNP in a direction it's no longer prepared to go in. But the Conservatives in Scotland smell blood.
Can they bring the whole government crashing down with their vote?
Later, Mick Lynch on the Labour plan for railways and what he makes of Angela Raynor's housing issue.
And we bring you the snap results - from JL Partners - of which way GB News viewers are voting. It's quite the poll.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | The power-sharing deal between the SNP and Greens in Scotland has collapsed. |
| 0:19.2 | The First Minister, Humza YouYusuf, is holding an emergency |
| 0:21.4 | cabinet meeting at his official residence in Butte House in Edinburgh. It has not been easy |
| 0:26.6 | since Humza-Yusuf became the leader of the SMP and the breaking news coming out of Scotland |
| 0:32.8 | that he is ditching his coalition partner the Green Party, |
| 0:38.1 | before the Green Party ditch him, a sort of almost teenager, |
| 0:42.0 | I chucked him, no, he chucked you, |
| 0:44.4 | has been taking place and it leaves the SMP looking so vulnerable. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah, Hamza Youssef is insisting that he is today taking control |
| 0:53.8 | by getting rid of rogue elements in his own government. |
| 0:58.3 | And he says he can now govern as a minority in the SMP. |
| 1:03.0 | But the Conservatives in Scotland have other plans. |
| 1:07.6 | They have just called for a vote of no confidence. |
| 1:12.7 | Is Hamza Yusuf, First Minister in Scotland and the SMP itself, now hanging by a thread. Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:22.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:25.2 | Here's John. It's Lewis. |
| 1:29.5 | And it's Emily. |
| 1:33.8 | Oh God, this episode is going to be hard work from now on in. |
| 1:35.9 | Later in the podcast. |
| 1:36.5 | Is everything all right? |
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