Newspaper headlines: 'You've only got Yousaf to blame' and 'Amazing Grace'

Most of Tuesday's papers lead on Humza Yousaf's resignation.

The Times - in both its Scottish and English editions - says the SNP faces a bitter leadership contest which bolsters Sir Keir Starmer's hopes of becoming prime minister.

On its front page, The Daily Record predicts a "Brutal Battle For Bute House" between the former deputy leader, John Swinney, and the former Finance Secretary, Kate Forbes. The paper's political editor describes Mr Yousaf, at his resignation news conference, as a "broken man".

"Swin It To Win It" is the Scottish Sun's headline. The paper says Nicola Sturgeon's former right-hand man, John Swinney, is "the hot favourite" to take over from Mr Yousaf. A senior SNP insider tells the paper that a vote for Kate Forbes would, in effect, be a vote for an early Holyrood election because the Scottish Greens would not support her minority government.

The Guardian also says Mr Swinney is the favourite, and a number of bookmakers have stopped taking bets on him.

The Scotsman describes Mr Yousaf's decision, last Thursday, to scrap the SNP's deal with the Greens as an extraordinary miscalculation that will go down in Holyrood history. The paper says he made the decision to resign on Sunday after a meeting with his closest advisers. A source said there was a "pretty strong consensus" that the other option - a deal with Alex Salmond's Alba Party - was a non-starter.

In the Scottish Daily Mail, journalist Andrew Neil argues that hopes of Scottish independence are now "dead for a generation, if not longer". He says the union is safe for the foreseeable future as the SNP faces defeats in Westminster and Holyrood elections. Mr Neil describes Mr Yousaf as a "hapless nonentity, who was never up to the job".

But The National says it's unlikely that the latest problems in the SNP will have any effect on support for independence. The paper says that since Nicola Sturgeon resigned as first minister last year the polling numbers for the SNP have slid down significantly, but there's been no decline in support for independence. It says the people of Scotland do not seem to conflate the issue of independence with the day-to-day political goings on in any one political party.

Away from the events in Edinburgh, the i has learned that Conservative rebels who are reportedly plotting to overthrow Rishi Sunak have been rebuffed by MPs they've tried to recruit for their proposed coup. The paper says those loyal to the prime minister believe there will not be enough rebels to put his position in serious danger, regardless of how bad the results of the local elections on Thursday might be for the Tories.

The Daily Telegraph says China has built a stockpile of gold worth £135 billion, in a move that's raised fears that Beijing is preparing for a possible conflict over Taiwan. The paper says in the past 17 months China's central bank has increased its gold reserves by 16% and it is thought the stockpiling is probably an effort to guard its economy against Western sanctions in the event of a war.

And finally The Times says a papyrus scroll that was buried near Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted nearly 2,000 ago may have revealed how the Greek philosopher Plato spent his final hours. The scroll says he listened to flute music performed by a slave girl and was unimpressed, because he criticised the sense of rhythm.

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