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Humza Yousaf puts SNP on election footing after collapse of coalition with Greens

Scottish first minister says scrapping power-sharing deal ‘marks a new beginning for the SNP government’

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Humza Yousaf has put the Scottish National party on an election footing after unilaterally scrapping his party’s landmark coalition with the Greens and signalling he will drop vote-losing policies.

In a surprise move early on Thursday morning, the first minister called in the Scottish Greens’ two co-leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, to tell them they were being sacked, as he axed a power-sharing deal first hailed as a new era in consensus politics.

Continue reading… The Guardian Read More Scottish first minister says scrapping power-sharing deal ‘marks a new beginning for the SNP government’UK politics – latest updatesHumza Yousaf has put the Scottish National party on an election footing after unilaterally scrapping his party’s landmark coalition with the Greens and signalling he will drop vote-losing policies.In a surprise move early on Thursday morning, the first minister called in the Scottish Greens’ two co-leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, to tell them they were being sacked, as he axed a power-sharing deal first hailed as a new era in consensus politics. Continue reading…