Achi news desk-
When asked if Mr Yousaf would resign if he lost the motion of no confidence, a spokesman said the issue was “hypothetical” and “next week’s business”.
If he stayed on if a vote of no confidence was successful it would be against the will of the Scottish Parliament.
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It followed the end of the Bute House Agreement after days of speculation.
Mr Yousaf met Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater this morning at 8am at Tŷ Bute to present the news.
A cabinet meeting was then held at 8.30am where an insider claimed that cabinet members had knocked on the table in “enthusiastic” support of the Prime Minister’s announcement.
The experienced interiorist added that there had been “no dissent” from the cabinet and that this was the first time they had heard a cabinet table being knocked in appreciation.
The Prime Minister is said to have been “reflecting on the decision very, very carefully”, although he went from supporting the Bute House Agreement to saying he would scrap it, all within 48 hours.
It is believed that Mr Yousaf came to the decision to end the agreement yesterday morning.
A spokesman for the Prime Minister said the BHA had been signed to provide “stability” and that the vote on the future of the agreement, brought forward by Greens campaigners, had undermined that stability.
He said the four-week wait for the vote would continue to put pressure on Mr Yousaf’s leadership.
The end of the agreement means that the SNP has the challenge of returning to being a minority government, as it was before in the periods 2007 to 2011 and 2016 to 2021.
When asked if the relationship with the Scottish Greens could be repaired or if there were fears that the party would not be appeased by the fury shown by Ms Slater on Thursday morning, a spokesman for the First Minister said it was believed that the the relationship would be a friendly one.
He pointed to Gillian Mackay’s buffer zones bill coming before the Scottish parliament next week and said the parties were expected to work together there.
The spokesman said that a situation like this – a motion of no confidence supported by the Greens in Scotland – has been “considered” as a protentional risk by the Prime Minister.
