John Curtice, Professor of Politics at Strathclyde University, says it's "evident" Yousaf can’t necessarily get the Greens “out of his hair”, despite putting them out the Bute House Agreement.

"Now having said consistently that the agreement with the Greens is valuable, all of a sudden he has ditched them. Mr Yousaf is not that popular with the public, there are doubts about his competence."

Speaking to BBC's Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live Programme, Prof Curtice added that in the no confidence vote next week, Alba MSP Ash Regan has to "play her hand carefully".

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf says ending the power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens was the right thing to do but he did not mean to upset or anger the party.

He says he hopes to speak to Scottish Greens co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater about what happened when he scrapped the deal yesterday morning.

"I understand and empathise with their position. I understand how they must be feeling," he says.

The first minister says the SNP and the Greens can work together in an arrangement that is less formal than the power-sharing Bute House agreement.

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Humza Yousaf says he will not resign. He’s confident he will win the no confidence vote. He says he will write to all the party leaders.

During a visit to a housing project in Dundee, he denies he’s a lame duck and says he does not believe it’s all over for him as Scotland's first minister.

Yousaf says he’s looking to work issue by issue, vote by vote, and get on to deliver for the people of Scotland.

He says to the Greens they have shared priorities.

Yousaf says he will not resign as first minister of Scotland.

He says he will write to all party leaders later today asking them to meet him.

Humza Yousaf says he believes he will win next week's vote of no confidence.

At an event in Dundee, he said: "I believe I can win that vote.

"I will absolutely be taking us into a general election and 2026 Scottish parliament elections."

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We're hearing now from Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey, who says "it’s time for a general election in Scotland".

Speaking on a visit to Stockport, Davey says: “It’s a total mess with the SNP and Humza Yousaf. I personally think this SNP government has really failed Scotland.”

He says the SNP has been too focused on an "ideological obsession" with independence and has let people down with its management of key services such as health and education.

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Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf donned a hard hat and a high vis vest as he arrived at a housing association site in Dundee,

So far he has not spoken to the waiting reporters, but he is expected to speak to the assembled media when he has completed his tour of the site.

Humza Yousaf is digging inpublished at 13:03 British Summer Time 26 April

13:03 BST 26 April

Nick Eardley
Political correspondent

Humza Yousaf is digging in. He is not resigning and his allies say he will do everything he can to win the confidence vote – likely next week.

What does that mean in practice? Simply, it’s trying to win over one of the opposition groups.

But that could be a tall order.

In the Scottish government, they acknowledge it’s unlikely the Greens will change their minds on voting against Yousaf.

It’s also true that it would hard for Yousaf to accept the demands of Alba’s Ash Regan. I’m told they haven’t spoken in a year – so the conversation could be a tricky one.

And privately, even some of Yousaf’s allies admit losing the confidence vote would be the end for him.

He has just days to try to win that vote – and potentially save his job as first minister.

Scottish Greens say they are committed to vote against Humza Yousafpublished at 13:01 British Summer Time 26 April

13:01 BST 26 April

Lynsey Bews
BBC Scotland political correspondent

The Scottish Greens say they remain committed to voting against Humza Yousaf in the Tories' motion of no confidence in the first minister.

Any suggestion that they could be open to a change of heart has been squashed by party sources.

How they will vote if Anas Sarwar’s Scottish Labour motion of no confidence in the entire Scottish government reaches the chamber is another matter. A source within the party says their position on that remains under consideration.

It will undoubtedly depend on how this political crisis develops over the coming days.

The Labour MSP for North East Scotland, Michael Marra, say the SNP government is "incompetent" and that the situation is becoming a "fiasco".

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland''s Lunchtime Live programme, he says: "It’s quite clear it’s a matter of when not if Humza Yousaf will step down as first minister.

"He's a lame duck and his position is quite frankly untenable after not just the chaos of the last 24 hours - entirely of his own making - but his record in government over the last year which has 1 in 6 Scots on waiting lists, an economy that’s flat lining and budget chaos in our public services across the board.

"It’s not possible now for the SNP to make the case that they should decide who the next first minister is. That should be up to the people of Scotland."

First Minister Humza Yousaf cancelled a planned speech at Strathclyde University in Glasgow this morning but he is attending an event in Dundee.

He is expected soon at a housing association development in the city, where he will be questioned by the media.

We have been reporting that Scottish Labour will now table their own no confidence motion, against the Scottish government as a whole, rather than just the first minister.

But what is the difference between that and the Scottish Conservatives' motion against the first minister?

Rob Johns, a professor of Politics at the University of Southampton, explains a vote against the FM is more of a "personal vote", whereas a vote against the government is a "much stronger weapon".

Speaking to BBC Radio Scotland's Lunchtime Live, he said: "The first minister would face huge pressure to step down but the rest of the SNP government would remain there and would decide what to do next,"

"A vote of no confidence in the government is binding so they have to do this, but also all the ministers [would] resign and Scotland needs a new government."

He said the Labour motion is a bigger deal "partly because of the bindingness and partly because of the sheer scale of dismals that it involves".

A no confidence motion requires the support of 25 MSPs to be debated and Scottish Labour only have 22, so they would need support from another opposition party

• Humza Yousaf was due to make speech at the University of Strathclyde, but cancelled last minute. He is expected to talk during another planned engagement at a housing project in Dundee at lunchtime
• The BBC understands the SNP leader and Scottish first minister, who lives near Dundee, will not be announcing his resignation despite speculation that he is "considering his position"

• Several politicians for and against Humza Yousaf have spoken to the BBC, with the SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn saying Yousaf is a "man of integrity"
• Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater says they decided yesterday their parliamentary group couldn't support the first minister and would back a Conservative-led motion of no confidence. However, today she said they could "have that conversation again" and "see how events develop.”
• The Alba Party MSP, Ash Regan, whose vote could be crucial, has written to Humza Yousaf with her terms for support which include progress towards independence and protecting the rights of women and children
• The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, said his party would also table a motion of no confidence - but in the entire Scottish government, rather than just the first minister.

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UK Labour's Rachel Reeves has said voting to bring down the SNP government and forcing an election in Scotland is the right thing to do for the people of Scotland.

The shadow chancellor said: “We will back the motion of no confidence in Humza Yousaf, but we've gone further and tabled a motion of no confidence in the whole Scottish government and if Anas Sarwar and Scottish Labour are successful with that amendment the government will fall and they'll be fresh elections and it is time for a fresh start in Scotland.

"The chaos and division at the heart of the SNP Is having a real impact on public services and the lives and communities across Scotland and we now have two broken governments - The SNP in Scotland and the Conservatives in Westminster.

“It is time for fresh elections in Scotland and across the UK” she said.

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Ash Regan quit the SNP to join Alex Salmond's Alba Party several months after Humza Yousaf defeated her in the contest to become the party’s leader.

Now her vote could be crucial if a motion of no confidence in Mr Yousaf takes place in the Scottish Parliament.

Ms Regan was little known outside political circles until she quit as community safety minister in October 2022 over plans to make it easier for someone to change their legally-recognised gender.

It was the first time an SNP minister had quit over government policy since the party came to power in 2007.

Ms Regan had been a longstanding critic of the proposals and was one of nine SNP politicians who rebelled against the party whip in a vote two months later.

The following year she was one of three candidates in the contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon as party leader and first minister, after her resignation in February 2023.

Ms Regan finished third in that vote, which was won by Humza Yousaf.

In October 2023 she defected from the SNP to join Alex Salmond’s pro-independence Alba Party, becoming its first MSP.

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Scotland's first minister is preparing to speak at an event in Dundee as he fights for his political future ahead of a no-confidence vote.

Humza Yousaf is expected to set out the action he can take as leader of a minority government after ditching the SNP's partnership with the Greens.

The BBC understands he will not be announcing his resignation.

Mr Yousaf had earlier pulled out of making a planned speech on independence at the University of Strathclyde.

The Conservatives have said they will hold a vote of no confidence in the first minister next week that he is not guaranteed to win.

Labour announced on Friday morning that they intend to hold a vote of no confidence in the Scottish government as a whole, which could lead to an election if it succeeds.

Both votes could be held next week.

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It is not clear that Labour have the votes to bring down the governmentpublished at 11:27 British Summer Time 26 April

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Kirsten Campbell
BBC Scotland political correspondent

It’s by no means clear that Labour has the votes to bring down the entire Scottish government.

Much will depend on whether the Greens would be willing to reject the government in which they served, rather than just the first minister who sacked them.

But were the Scottish government to lose a no confidence vote it would be legally obliged to resign.

An election isn’t automatic in those circumstances. The Scottish Parliament would have 28 days to elect a new first minister. That could well prove impossible and lead to the dissolution of parliament with voters going to the polls.

Another option is that MSPs could vote for an early election with a two-thirds majority. However getting 84 MSPs to agree about anything in the current political turmoil might be challenging.

Stuart Nicolson, former senior adviser to Nicola Sturgeon, is asked about how things developed after Yousaf announced the end of the power sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens.

He says "the way things unravelled clearly wasn’t in the playbook" and he "can't remember a day when things moved so quickly and unpredictably."

Speaking to BBC'S Good Morning Scotland programme, he said: “Yesterday showed how quickly events can move.

"Therefore, the time between now and the confidence vote next week, an awful lot can happen in those intervening days, so I don’t think anyone should assume anything too quickly about what’s going to happen."

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Alex Cole-Hamilton, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, says he's "not entirely sure who’s in charge of Scotland right, now but it’s not Humza Yousaf.”

“This is a terrible situation at a time when our NHS has been cut off at the knees, our schools are tumbling down international rankings, islanders don’t have the ferries they need."

Speaking to BBC's Good Morning Scotland programme, he said it was a "mess" of the first minister's own making and that he’s "painted himself into this corner".

“We can’t go on like this, a government that is obsessed with its own survival won’t make the right decisions in the best interests of the country."

Glenn Campbell
BBC Scotland Political Editor

Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf is preparing to give a speech in Dundee setting out the sort of action he can now take as leader of a minority government having ditched the Greens.

The BBC understands the SNP leader, who lives near Dundee, will not be announcing his resignation despite a Conservative confidence vote in his leadership of the Scottish government likely to be scheduled at Holyrood next week.

It looks difficult for Yousaf to win that vote unless at least a couple of opposition MSPs can be persuaded to abstain or at least one switches sides to back him.

The Alba MSP Ash Regan is offering the first minister a deal in exchange for her support but the BBC understands it is unlikely Yousaf would find it possible to agree such an arrangement.