Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In response, The Scottish Conservatives have tabled a vote of no confidence vote. And the Yousaf might very well lose it, now the Greens are out of the government. What will this mean for the first minister?
Katy Balls speaks to Lucy Dunn, Iain Macwhirter and Fraser Nelson.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:18.7 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of Coffey House Scott. Yes, we're back. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Lucy Dunne and Ian McWerta, Times Columnist and Spectator Contributor. |
| 0:35.0 | Now it's been a big day in Scotland and the day is not done yet. |
| 0:39.0 | The first minister has scrapped the S&P's power sharing agreement with the Greens. |
| 0:43.0 | Lucy, can you just bring us up today a little bit of the pretext in terms of the |
| 0:47.1 | policies that got us here, but what exactly happened this morning? |
| 0:50.3 | Yeah, so this morning we heard that there was going to be this emergency cabinet meeting held a half past eight and it was very widely assumed that this is going to be to do with the Bute House agreement. |
| 1:00.0 | Now, last week there was this sort of watershed moment where the Scottish |
| 1:04.0 | government you turned on a key energy target and having the Green Party within |
| 1:09.1 | government it was really not great optics for the Greens themselves. They faced a backlash from their |
| 1:14.2 | party membership and then the co-leaders of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvey and Lorna Slaser, |
| 1:19.3 | announced that there would be an emergency general meeting at which Green Party members would get to vote |
| 1:24.3 | on the future of the Butehouse agreement and that's essentially the future of the Scottish government |
| 1:28.6 | in terms of how that would look. Now there's a number of SMP backbenchers who have for the past year certainly and slightly longer than that for some people |
| 1:36.8 | expressed doubts about how the coalition was progressing, particularly about which policy priorities were being put at the top of the agenda |
| 1:44.8 | on which weren't. |
| 1:46.1 | We've seen people like Kate Forbes and Fergus Ewing talk about how the coalition wasn't |
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