First minister terminates Bute House agreement ‘with immediate effect’ after government abandons emissions target
The historic power-sharing agreement between the Scottish National party and Scottish Greens is to end after a crisis over the government’s climate strategy.It means the Green co-leaders, Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie, are no longer part of the Scottish government and the SNP will operate as a minority administration.
During a press conference at Bute House, his official residence in Edinburgh, the first minister said: “It is no longer guaranteeing a stable arrangement in parliament, the events of recent days have made that clear, and therefore, after careful consideration, I believe that going forward it is in the best interest of the people of
Tensions had been building between Yousaf and the Greens over several issues central to the Bute House agreement, including gender recognition, road building, climate strategy, marine policy and Yousaf’s unilateral decision to freeze council tax rates after the SNP’sRecent polls suggest the SNP faces losing dozens of seats at the next general election and Yousaf has been under growing pressure from within his party to scrap the agreement in order to neutralise opposition attacks and minimise...
“I think the divergence is too great now and it’s in the interests of neither party to continue. So I’d be content if the SNP were to say: ‘We’re going to work as a minority government.’”
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