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Today in Focus

Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On Monday, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf announced his resignation. What does this mean for the Scottish National party? Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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This is going to be happening all the time guys because it's, everybody wants to know

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what's going on.

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Severin Carroll is the Guardian's Scotland editor.

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And yesterday morning in Edinburgh, there was a major political resignation in the air.

1:21.0

And it had come virtually out of nowhere.

1:24.0

I've just come off the phone to somebody very close to Humza and he's going to be

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resigning quite soon. Humza Yusuf who took over from Nicholas Sturgeon, a Scotland's first minister, had run a troubled coalition government.

1:37.0

But one held together by a deal that, in his words, was worth its weight in gold.

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And then last week, Yusuf made a political calculation,

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a miscalculation.

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Last week, I stood here to announce the ending of the cooperation agreement between the

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