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Humza Yousaf latest updates: Scotland's first minister considers quitting - BBC News | |
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Humza Yousaf has reportedly ruled out cutting a deal with Alba, a pro-independence party formed by former First Minister Alex Salmond after he broke from the SNP. | |
The party only has one MSP, Ash Regan, but that single vote would give the SNP a tie in any confidence vote and save the first minister - assuming all members of his own party backed him. | |
Yesterday we reported Salmond had set out his terms for any such deal with the SNP. | |
He said it would rely on a renewed push for Scottish independence, and a shift from "identity politics" to the "people's priorities". | |
Salmond would also want the SNP to support his plan for a referendum on whether the Scottish Parliament should have the legal right to hold a new vote on independence, something which only Westminster can approve now. | |
It seems unlikely Yousaf is going to take him up on that offer. | |
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