Summary
First Minister Humza Yousaf faces a no-confidence vote after a dramatic day at Holyrood. The team react to the termination of the Bute House agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, from the furious reaction from the Greens leadership to the fiery FMQs that followed. With Scottish Conservatives leader Douglas Ross saying he will bring a no-confidence motion to Parliament next week, and the SNP's former power sharing partners confirming they will vote against the First Minister, is this the end of the line for Humza Yousaf's premiership?
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds |
| 0:02.0 | You're listening to BBC Scotland |
| 0:10.0 | Hi, you're listening to Podlitical BBC Scotland's podcast that gives you the biggest stories coming out of Holyrood and Westminster. |
| 0:26.9 | It is now 10 past 7 in the evening on the 25th of April. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Lindsay Buse, a political correspondent based out of Hollywood. |
| 0:32.5 | And today I'm joined by... I'm Kirsten Campbell and I'm also a political correspondent based at Hollywood. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Andrew Kerr and I am also a political correspondent based out of Holurit as well. |
| 0:41.9 | Kristen and Andrew we're recording this podcast at the end of what has been an extremely long working day for us. |
| 0:50.7 | An extraordinary day really, hasn't it? |
| 0:52.4 | It has been amazing. It has. It's been absolutely amazing. |
| 0:55.4 | And it kicked off really, really early this morning. |
| 0:59.4 | Kirsten, just tell me about how the day started for you. |
| 1:02.3 | I woke up and I noticed on my phone that Paul Hutchin, who's the political editor of the Daily Record, |
| 1:08.7 | had put a note in the little group chat that we have for all |
| 1:11.2 | the political journalists that are based in Hollywood saying oh a cabinet meeting this morning |
| 1:16.3 | and I thought oh I better make some phone calls and check so I got hold of somebody in the government |
| 1:22.6 | who was like oh well yeah that that is happening we don't call them emergencies it's you know |
| 1:27.4 | it's just an extra cabinet meeting. |
| 1:29.5 | And I said, well, what are you going to discuss? |
| 1:31.2 | Is it the Butte House Agreement? |
| 1:32.5 | What is it? |
| 1:32.9 | Well, look, it's not a resignation. |
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