Humza Yousaf has cancelled a speech he was due to deliver later today on independence in Glasgow.
The First Minister of Scotland was scheduled to deliver an address on the labour market in an independent Scotland.
The cancellation, which has been reported by Sky News, comes after the Greens said that they will give Yousaf a vote of no confidence next week, however sources have said that Scotland’s First Minister will still “come out fighting”.
Yousaf announced last week his plans to step away from his party’s coalition with the Greens, after a dispute over climate policies.
The Greens were angered when the Scottish Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan announced last week the Scottish Government was to ditch a key climate change target.
That, combined with the decision to pause the use of puberty blockers for new patients attending the only Scottish gender identity clinic for children in Glasgow, resulted in the Greens saying last week that they would have a vote on the future of the power-sharing deal.
The Bute House Agreement was dropped following an emergency Cabinet meeting at Bute House in Edinburgh yesterday morning.
The deal, which was signed in 2021 and is named after the official residence of the Scottish First Minister in Edinburgh, brought the Green Party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK.
The scrapping of the deal prompted the Scottish Tories to table a vote of no confidence in him.
Without the agreement, the SNP will have to function as a minority administration at Holyrood.
Douglas Ross told MSPs at First Minister’s Questions at Holyrood his party had said from the start that agreement between the SNP and the Greens was a “coalition of chaos” and that it had now “ended in chaos.”
He said: “I can confirm today that on behalf of the Scottish Conservatives I am lodging a vote of no confidence in Humza Yousaf.”
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