After the tears, the recriminations. Just who scuppered the putative deal between Humza Yousaf and Ash Regan MSP that could have saved Yousaf’s bacon? The Alba leader, Alex Salmond, told the BBC’s World at One that Humza Yousaf had been on the phone to Regan at 7.30 a.m. today to say that her terms were ‘very reasonable’. It was, Salmond implied, a done deal.
Sturgeon was not going to be content with any kind of deal that gave Salmond indirect influence over the fate of the Scottish National party
Clearly, others in the SNP thought differently, and five hours later, Humza Yousaf was making a tearful farewell to Bute House.
In his resignation statement, Yousaf insisted that he’d made the decision to resign at the weekend after he realised he could not retain the support of the Scottish Green MSPs. They were, he said, ‘hurt and upset’ at the manner in which he had ended the coalition agreement.
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