Humza Yousaf claims he could have won vote of no confidence
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Humza Yousaf resigns as First Minister
Humza Yousaf today resigned as First Minister, saying he was not willing to “trade my values and principles simply for retaining power”. He will stay on in office until the SNP can elect a successor. Mr Yousaf was facing two votes of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament this week after last week’s scrapping of the SNP’s coalition with the Greens. He said a way through the votes of confidence was “absolutely possible”. But he had concuded that repairing relationships across the political...