WhatSNPpening with Scotland?s First Minister!?

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BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at Humza Yousaf facing a vote of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament.

The First Minister says he won?t resign and is ?very confident? he?ll win the vote. The vote was triggered after he ended a power-sharing agreement between the SNP and Scottish Greens, because of disagreements over climate policy and the use of puberty blockers for under 18s. Adam is joined by Laura Kuenssberg and BBC Scotland Editor James Cook.

And Tim Shipman, author of All Out War and No Way Out, speaks to Adam about the Brexit years and the role of the ?mating porcupines?. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Gemma Roper, Sam McLaren and Natasha Mayo. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.7	Hello, this is going to be an episode of reunions for me.
0:07.7	First of all, I'm going to be reunited with Laura Kaye to talk about what an earth is going on in Scottish politics.
0:13.2	And then I'm going to be reunited with my specialist subject, Brexit, because there's a big new book out about it.
0:18.7	That's to come on this episode of Newscast.
0:20.8	Newscast from the BBC.
0:23.1	Hundreds of bald men scrapping over a single broken cone.
0:27.2	He's not a leader. He is a human weather vane.
0:30.1	Two cheeks of the same backside.
0:32.7	No politicians are listening to what's happening.
0:35.6	We essentially need a bigger bazooka.
0:38.7	Why do you always think that the way you'll live is better than the way we'll live?
0:42.4	The AI will be able to do everything.
0:44.1	The appalling Willy Wonka experience.
0:46.1	Get a life.
0:49.0	Hello, it's Adam in the studio.
0:51.0	And the first subject we're going to focus on in this episode is the fate of the First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the SMP, Humza Yousif. We sort of referred to this a bit on Thursday night, but didn't go into any detail because it was such a fluid situation. Like a really, really dramatic one with potentially quite big consequences and a lot of drama due next week.
1:11.8	But we thought we'd do it justice by saving it till this episode,
1:15.8	when we could A, speak to the right people and B, a little bit of the dust had settled.
1:21.4	And I'm pleased to say we've definitely got the right people.
1:24.5	Laura Koontzberg's here. Hi, Laura.
1:26.3	Hello, Adam. Hello, newscasters. I'm in a taxi.
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