Humza Yousaf faces no confidence vote

If last week wasn’t bad enough for hapless Humza Yousaf, this week has brought him even more turbulence. Now the Scottish government’s SNP-Green coalition has collapsed leaving the SNP to field a minority government and some rather, er, furious Greens in opposition. And to add insult to injury, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross delivered a real zinger in First Minister’s Questions today when he announced that he was lodging a vote of no confidence in Humza Yousaf.

‘He is a failed First Minister,’ Ross told Holyrood, ‘he has focused on the wrong priorities for Scotland.’ With Labour, the Lib Dems and the Tories all looking to support the motion, all eyes are now on – you guessed it – the Greens. Mr S wonders quite how charitable they will be feeling…

The Scottish Greens can hardly contain their anger at Yousaf’s decision. Co-leader Lorna Slater this morning labelled the decision as ‘political cowardice by the SNP’, fuming that Humza Yousaf ‘can no longer be trusted’.