Key points
- 'I intend absolutely to fight vote of no confidence,' Yousaf tells Sky News
- Connor Gillies:First minister must reset relations with the very people he has burned bridges with
- Yousaf's political future in numbers - and how it may all come down to just one
- 'When they start caring about us, maybe we'll care back': Politics Hub special explores breakdown in trust between voters and politicians
- Serena Barker-Singh:Stark and bleak view from Target Towns voters
- LatestElectoral Dysfunction podcast explores what the local elections will bring
- Live reporting by Charlotte Chelsom-Pill
Yousaf tells Sky News he has 'every intention' of winning vote of no confidence
Scotland's first minister tells Sky News he has "every intention" of winning the vote of confidence against him.
Speaking live to Sky's Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies, Humza Yousaf accused the opposition parties of "playing games".
"I intend to fight that vote of no confidence. I've got every intention of winning that vote of no confidence," he said.
Mr Yousaf said he understand the "upset and anger" felt by the Scottish Greens after he scrapped their power-sharing agreement yesterday.
But he said the opposition must act in "good faith" in order to make a minority government work "in the interests of the people of Scotland".
He said he will be writing to all political party leaders and party groups represented in the Scottish parliament, including the leaders of the Greens, to ask them to meet with him.
Asked how he can be confident he will win the no-confidence vote, he says: "I believe in our ability to be able to work with, negotiate, compromise where necessary. We've shown that in the past."
"I'll be looking to do that over the next coming days with the opposition leaders.
"And with that, I'm quite confident, very confident, in fact, that we'll be able to win that vote of confidence."
Mr Yousaf confirms he has no intention of resigning.
Target Towns: Voters in Grimsby have their say on Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge
ByJennifer Scott, political reporter
Voters in Grimsby - one of Sky News's election Target Towns - have been offering their views on politics, politicians and "broken promises".
The electoral battle in Grimsby and Cleethorpes,the Target Towns, will be fierce. Labour will need an 11.7 point swing to win this newly-merged constituency back from the Conservatives.
In 2019, residents in Grimsby voted Tory for the first time since the end of the Second World War. The old Cleethorpes constituency was always more of a bellwether, having voted Conservative since 2010.
However, it has shed some of its rural, Conservative-voting residents in the merger.
Speaking on thePolitics Hub With Sophy Ridge, small business owner Shannon said she might not vote in the next general election later this year as she "just can't trust anything anybody says".
She said she has felt this way since Brexit - something Grimsby was overwhelmingly in support of - because "we were promised 'x' and 'y' and it hasn't happened, so I'm just totally disengaged from it".
Asked whether local MPs on the panel - Conservative Lia Nici and Labour's Melanie Onn - could change her mind, Shannon said "possibly", but reiterated how let down local people feel.
"We're promised a lot, but it's never delivered," she said. "Talk of things happening... and then it doesn't happen and people are just fed up... have been told this is what we're going to get, but it doesn't actually happen. And that's why people have just lost faith."
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Scottish Conservatives will back motion of no-confidence in Scottish government
Douglas Ross has confirmed his party will support a bid by Scottish Labour to hold a no-confidence vote in the government.
Speaking to Times Radio, the Scottish Conservatives leader said: "What we have already seen in reaction to the Labour motion being put by Anas Sarwar is that it is not gaining support from crucially the Greens.
"They (Greens) have said they will back our motion of no confidence in Humza Yousaf, but they are not saying the same about the motion of no confidence in the entire Scottish government.
"I'll support that because I want to get rid of the Scottish government but ultimately, we are on the brink of removing Humza Yousaf from office.
"He has been a failure as first minister and we have an opportunity next week to end his time in office."
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar announced the move earlier on Friday.
It is separate to the vote of no-confidence in Humza Yousaf that is set to take place early next week.
If Mr Yousaf loses that he doesn't automatically have to resign, but his position would be put in considerable peril.
If the Scottish Labour motion of no-confidence is successful, it would force the first minister and his cabinet to resign.
Yousaf's political future in numbers - and how it may all come down to just one
Humza Yousaf's future as first minister is hanging in the balance ahead of a motion of no confidence next week.
Now, as leader of a minority government, his fate may be hanging on just one vote - that of a former SNP leadership rival.
We take a look at how:
The numbers
In the Scottish parliament, the SNP has 63 seats out of 129, two short of an outright majority;
The Conservatives have31;
Labour has 22;
The Greens haveseven;
The Liberal Democrats have four;
The Alba Party has one;
There is also one presiding officer Alison Johnstone, who is both an MSP and Scotland's equivalent of the Commons speaker.
How the numbers are expected to fall
The motion of no confidence was brought by the Scottish Conservatives.
The Greens, Labour and the Lib Dems have all said they are backing the motion.
That would translate into 64 votes against the first minister versus 63 SNP votes.
So the one Alba vote is expected to be key.
How it may all come down to one ... Ash Regan
Once an SNP leadership rival to Mr Yousaf, Ash Regan defected to Alex Salmond's Alba Party last October.
If she backs Mr Yousaf then that would mean both sides have 64 votes.
Ms Johnstone would then be expected to vote in favour of the status quo, so the first minister would survive.
But if Ms Regan votes against Mr Yousaf, then the opposition parties will have 65 votes against the SNP's 63, and the first minister would lose.
He wouldn't be compelled to resign in this situation, but he'd be under huge pressure to step aside.
More to come
And remember, Scottish Labour have lodged a separate motion of no confidence in the Scottish government.
Alba have said it won't back that motion.
Yousaf is battling for political survival. How did we get here - and what happens next?
Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf is battling to save his job as he faces a knife-edge no-confidence vote.
The SNP leadertriggered a crisis at Holyrood after he dramatically brought the power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens to an end.
The backlash has plunged Mr Yousaf's future into doubt, although party colleagues insist he will not resign.
How did we get here?
The Bute House Agreement - signed back in 2021 and named after the first minister's official residence in Edinburgh - brought the Green Party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK.
It gave the SNP a majority at Holyrood when the votes of its MSPs were combined with those of the seven Green members, and also made Green co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater junior ministers.
Without it, the SNP would need to have operated as a minority administration at Holyrood.
What caused the relationship to sour?
There had been mounting tensions between the largest party at Holyrood and their junior partners in government.
The Greens were angered at the SNP-led administration's recent decision to ditch a key climate change target.
That, combined with the decision to pause the prescription of new puberty blockers to under-18s at at Scotland's only gender clinic, resulted in the Greens announcing they would have a vote on the future of the power-sharing deal.
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In pictures: Lord Cameron celebrates UK-Mongolian partnership on final day of Central Asia tour
Lord David Cameron has heralded the UK-Mongolia partnership today, saying it is "stronger than ever," as he completes his five-day tour of Central Asia.
The foreign secretary's visit to Mongolia saw him meet president Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh.
And he can be seen posing for photos with one of the prime minister of Mongolia's horses.
Lord Cameron also took part in an English lesson at a school in the capital, Ulaanbaatar.
His tour of Central Asia has already taken him to Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Analysis: Yousaf must reset relations with the very people he has burned bridges with
Kitted out in his hard hat and high-vis jacket, an embattled Humza Yousaf toured a new social housing development in Dundee today as he dodges incoming political fire.
It was difficult to miss the metaphor of him stepping out on to the balcony of one home. A leader whose career appears to be teetering on the edge.
I spoke to the first minister live on Sky News and his message could not have been clearer. He is clambering to cling on. Defiant that he will win a looming no-confidence vote.
He denies suggestions he even considered quitting in the past 24 hours.
Some sources within the SNP, though, told a different tale.
They contradict their leader with a suggestion he had serious conversations with his inner circle about the path ahead.
The sacked Green ministers may get the ultimate political "revenge" when they cast their vote next week.
One Green source told me the only move they would support Mr Yousaf doing is resigning. "He needs to go now", they said.
The question is how long can the SNP chief ride the storm? His fate now lies in the hands of one-time leadership rival Ash Regan.
He said she was "no great loss" when she defected to Alex Salmond's Alba party last year.
Mr Yousaf must now reset relations with the very people he has burned bridges with since taking over as Scotland's leader in the wake of Nicola Sturgeon's shock resignation.
Regan tells Yousaf she wants a 'reset', but remains 'open to any discussion'
The Scottish MSP who may well have the deciding vote in a motion of no confidence in the first minister says she has written to him requesting a "reset".
But she says she remains "open to any discussion".
Ash Regan, once a rival to Humza Yousaf for SNP leader, defected to Alex Salmond's Alba Party last year.
With the SNP now a minority administration and the rest of the opposition confirming they are plotting to oust the beleaguered first minister, Sky'sScotland correspondent Connor Gillies saysMs Regan finds herself as possibly the most powerful woman in Scotland.
In a post on X, Ms Regan said: "I have written to Humza Yousaf this morning requesting a reset, and a return to competent government, where we prioritise independence and protect the dignity, safety and rights of women and children.
"I remain open to any discussion where we progress the priorities of the people of Scotland."
You can read more from Connor's analysis on Ash Regan here:
Yousaf's political future in numbers - and how it may all come down to just one
Humza Yousaf's future as first minister is hanging in the balance ahead of a motion of no confidence next week.
Now, as leader of a minority government, his fate may be hanging on just one vote - that of a former SNP leadership rival.
We take a look at how:
The numbers
In the Scottish parliament, the SNP has 63 seats out of 129, two short of an outright majority;
The Conservatives have31;
Labour has 22;
The Greens haveseven;
The Liberal Democrats have four;
The Alba Party has one;
There is also one presiding officer Alison Johnstone, who is both an MSP and Scotland's equivalent of the Commons speaker.
How the numbers are expected to fall
The motion of no confidence was brought by the Scottish Conservatives.
The Greens, Labour and the Lib Dems have all said they are backing the motion.
That would translate into 64 votes against the first minister versus 63 SNP votes.
So the one Alba vote is expected to be key.
How it may all come down to one ... Ash Regan
Once an SNP leadership rival to Mr Yousaf, Ash Regan defected to Alex Salmond's Alba Party last October.
If she backs Mr Yousaf then that would mean both sides have 64 votes.
Ms Johnstone would then be expected to vote in favour of the status quo, so the first minister would survive.
But if Ms Regan votes against Mr Yousaf, then the opposition parties will have 65 votes against the SNP's 63, and the first minister would lose.
He wouldn't be compelled to resign in this situation, but he'd be under huge pressure to step aside.
More to come
And remember, Scottish Labour have lodged a separate motion of no confidence in the Scottish government.
Alba have said it won't back that motion.
'It's a total mess': Davey backs Labour call for an election in Scotland
Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has backed Labour calls for an election in Scotland, describing the situation facing the SNP and first minister as a "total mess".
Scottish Labour have lodged a motion of no confidence in the government, saying "we need an election right now".
Humza Yousef is also facing a no-confidence vote on his leadership next week.
Put forward by the Conservatives, it has the backing of Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens.
"It's a total mess with the SNP and Humza Yousaf," Sir Ed said during a visit to the River Goyt in Stockport.
"I personally think this SNP government has really failed Scotland."
He said the SNP has let Scotland down on key services such as health and education because the party has been "so focused on their ideological obsession of independence".
"On these basic things that matter to people, the SNP have been failing them and so Liberal Democrats have been saying in Scotland, look, we need to focus on the NHS, we need to focus on our schools, the cost of living, the environment."
"Because the SNP haven't done, I actually think it's time for a general election in Scotland."
