SNP and Green Power Sharing Collapses in Scotland

Published on April 25, 2024

The SNP is now operating as a minority government in Scotland after First Minister Humza Yousaf ended the power sharing arrangement with the Green Party following recent policy wrangling around net zero and gender ideology. An emergency meeting of the Scottish Cabinet on Thursday agreed to end the arrangement, known as the Bute House Agreement, that brought the Greens into power in Holyrood in 2021 when the SNP fell short of a majority by a single seat. The move means the Green Party’s co-leaders, Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie, are no longer part of the Scottish Government, with Ms. Slater accusing Mr. Yousaf of “political cowardice.”...

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