Humza Yousaf to face motion of no confidence after ending Green coalition

Humza Yousaf will face a motion of no confidence after ending his coalition pact with the Greens.

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross announced during First Minister's Questions he was taking the action to oust the First Minister.

It comes after the First Minister terminated the Bute House Agreement on Thursday, as revealed by the Daily Record.

The SNP currently has 63 MSPs - two short of a majority.

The Lib Dems has said they back the no confidence motion.

Labour said that Yousaf ending the deal was a "humiliating U-turn".

Ross said: “We called the SNP-Green deal a coalition of chaos – and it’s ended in absolute chaos.

“Humza Yousaf’s government is in crisis. It has unravelled. He has abandoned the platform he stood on.

“This weak First Minister jumped before Green members pushed him.

“The Scottish Conservatives will lodge a Vote of No Confidence in Humza Yousaf.

“He has failed as First Minister. He has focused on the wrong priorities. He has governed in the SNP’s interests, not Scotland’s interests. He is unfit for office.

“This morning, Humza Yousaf might have signed the moving out of Bute House agreement.

“Even his nationalist coalition partners don’t trust him.

“He claims it’s a new beginning. It’s really the beginning of the end.

“This should be the end of the road for this weak First Minister.”

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said Yousaf should "end the circus and call an election".

He said: “The First Minister has spent weeks defending this discredited Government.

“Just days ago, he said the Bute House Agreement was “worth its weight in gold”.

“He was pleading with Green party members to keep his shambolic Government together: 'I hope that the cooperation agreement will continue and I hope that Green members will also see the benefit of that cooperation'.

“But now he has been forced into a humiliating u-turn.

“And he knows it. These are his words: “I can’t imagine being the…leader of the SNP and the first thing I do is destabilise the government by going into a minority government. I think that would be a tremendously foolish thing to do.”

“The First Minister is claiming that this is a sign of strength but for once people agree with Lorna Slater: he is “weak, hopeless and untrustworthy”.

“The challenges facing our country have never been so great, but Scotland’s Government has never been so poor and its leadership has never been so weak.

“1 in 7 Scots are stuck on an NHS waiting list as he fails to get a grip of the NHS crisis.

“Families struggling to make ends meet while this Government wastes public money.

“And green jobs going elsewhere while he scraps the Government’s climate target.

“The people of Scotland can see the SNP have lost their way: weak, divided and incompetent. Putting party before country.

“The people of Scotland didn’t vote for him to become First Minister.

“The people of Scotland didn’t vote for this mess and this chaos.

“It’s time to end this circus and call an election.”

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