Scotland’s first minister resigns
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Humza Yousaf is resigning as Scotland’s first minister, and WeWork’s senior creditors are poised to take control of the reorganised co-working space provider. Plus, an Africa-focused venture capital firm has steered one of the region’s biggest fundraising efforts of the past five months.
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Humza Yousaf quits as Scotland’s first minister
WeWork agrees restructuring deal that shuts out Adam Neumann’s comeback bid
Africa-focused fund draws early investors to tech industry
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.0 | Learn more at equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, April 30th, and this is your |
| 0:17.8 | F.T. News briefing. The Scottish National Party suffered yet another major setback yesterday, |
| 0:24.5 | and the drama at We Work might actually be coming to a close. |
| 0:28.7 | Plus Africa's young tech sector is catching the eyes of international investors. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Mark Filipino back from sabbatical and here's the news you need to start your day. Good afternoon. Can I thank you all for coming? |
| 0:55.0 | Humza Youssef, Scotland's first minister, announced his resignation yesterday. |
| 1:00.0 | I've concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done |
| 1:06.5 | the someone else at the helm. It's the latest in a long line of political problems for the Scottish National Party, which USAF leads. |
| 1:15.2 | To my colleagues in opposition, regardless of political party, I genuinely do wish you well. |
| 1:21.5 | I bear no ill well and certainly bear no grudge against anyone. |
| 1:26.0 | Here to talk to me about where the country's largest party is headed next is the F.T's Simeon Kerr. |
| 1:31.7 | Hey Simeon. Hi there. |
| 1:33.2 | All right, so just get us up to speed here. Why did you have resigned? |
| 1:37.2 | Well, last Thursday, Hamza-USF decided to try and reset his leadership by tearing up a power sharing agreement with his coalition |
| 1:47.2 | partners, the Scottish Greens. |
| 1:49.7 | This was attempting to try and get back onto the center ground of politics to refocus on |
| 1:55.4 | bread and butter issues that are of most concern to the voters you know issues such |
| 2:01.9 | as health, education, transport, economy, jobs and investment. |
| 2:06.0 | However, the Greens reacted furiously to this slight and decided not to back his leadership when the Scottish Conservatives launched a vote of no |
| 2:17.2 | confidence in Humser Yousif. |
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