It's 09:00 BST and if you're just joining us, here's a reminder of what happened over a remarkable few days in Scottish politics.

So, how did we get here?

• On Monday, Humza Yousaf signalled he would resign as Scotland's first minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP)
• He said he would stay on as first minister until the SNP chooses his replacement
• Speaking from his official Bute House residence in Edinburgh, Yousaf said he "underestimated" the level of hurt he had caused the Greens by ending the power-sharing deal last week

• The SNP leader told reporters he wasn't willing to trade his principles just to hold on to power and became visibly emotional as he paid tribute to his wife and children

• Speculation on who Yousaf's successor has already been rife. Former SNP leader John Swinney, who served as deputy first minister to Nicola Sturgeon, said he is actively considering standing
• Swinney has already received the backing of several senior politicians, including the SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn, his predecessor Ian Blackford, Scotland's Energy Secretary Mairi McAllan and Education Secretary Jenny Gilruth

• But other SNP politicians have come out supporting Kate Forbes instead, including MP Joanna Cherry and MSP Fergus Ewing - although Forbes has not confirmed she will stand
• While Scotland's Deputy First Minister Shona Robison has ruled herself out of the running

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Will opposition parties support the new SNP leader?published at 08:39 British Summer Time 30 April

08:39 BST 30 April

David Wallace Lockhart
Political correspondent

With the dust settling on Humza Yousaf’s resignation, we’re hearing from opposition parties in Scotland about how they’d work with any successor.

Whereas John Swinney can probably rely on some support from the Greens, Kate Forbes would probably have to work with other opposition parties.

We’ve heard from both Labour and the Conservatives. They sound like they’re probably open to this sort of arrangement - but it would only be where interests aligned.

This all comes with one big caveat - we don’t actually have any official SNP leadership candidates yet!

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We may hear Kate Forbes' name mentioned a lot today as a possible contender for Scotland’s top job, but Forbes has yet to officially announce her intention.

She narrowly lost to Humza Yousaf in the SNP leadership contest which saw him become leader, when 48% of the membership opted for the Highland MSP - in spite of her admission that she wouldn't back same-sex marriage.

Forbes has rebelled on a number of issues while she's been on the backbenches, and is widely seen as representing a more socially conservative wing of the party.

She has also expressed concern that the party's been losing focus on rural areas.

If she was to get the job, could she govern? The SNP doesn't have a majority, so how does legislation get passed in this scenario?

The Scottish Greens don't like Kate Forbes's stance on a number of social issues, so their backing won't be forthcoming.

We're reported that the SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn is backing John Swinney as the next SNP leader.

Swinney says he is considering throwing his hat into the ring for the SNP leadership after Humza Yousaf announced his resignation yesterday.

You might know this SNP politician from his time as deputy first minister. He stepped down from the role last year in February when Nicola Sturgeon announced her departure as first minister.

His loyalty to the party runs deep, with the 60-year-old first getting involved in politics when he joined the SNP at the age of 15.

Many in the party see him as representing core SNP values and a strong desire for Scottish independence.

We do not have details on how Swinney would plan to govern the minority government at this stage.

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We've just seen the SNP's Westminster leader Stephen Flynn on BBC Breakfast, where he says that the past two days have been a tough time for the party.

Flynn begins by listing the achievements of First Minister Humza Yousaf, who he says "acted with integrity and compassion throughout his time in office" and highlights why so many in the party are "so sad" at his departure.

But he says that the SNP now has a "clean slate" to govern as they are no longer in coalition with the Greens, which means they can tackle Scotland's biggest issues on their own terms.

He firmly backs John Swinney to become the next party leader and first minister, saying he "is somewhere with a calm head and a vision for what we can do next".

Flynn points to Swinney's prior experience in government, and argues he is someone who can "who can bring people together from across the political divide" and can lead Scotland into the future with "positivity and ambition".

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Scottish Conservative MSP, Murdo Fraser, tells BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme Humza Yousaf was "the victim of his own demise" and "the continuity candidate who couldn't break away from the shadow of his predecessor".

He says while his party will not support any SNP candidate for first minister, it would be in his view a "serious mistake" for the SNP to elect John Swinney as party leader as the country needs a "fresh start".

Fraser says: "If Scotland wants to move forward, we can’t continue with the same old faces and the same old story we’ve had for the last seventeen years from the SNP.

"We need a fresh start and I think electing a candidate who is representing the past would be a serious error.

"That was the mistake they made with Humza Yousaf. Humza Yousaf came in saying he was going to continue the ruinous legacy of Nicola Sturgeon. For the SNP to do the same again would just add to the errors we’ve seen over the past year."

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We've been hearing from several political parties on the future the SNP's leadership this morning.

Scottish Labour's Anas Sarwar says an election is "the only way to stop the chaos".

He tells BBC Radio 4's Today programme the SNP has become "so chaotic, so divided, so dysfunctional that they aren't able to give this country the stable, credible leadership it needs".

Sarwar believes an election is "the only way that we can get stability back" as, in his view, it will "allow the people to decide" who leads Scotland, instead of a "small group of SNP members".

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Scottish Liberal Democrats leader Alex Cole-Hamilton says after the "drama" of the last week, his hope is that parliament decides to go to the Scottish people for "new instructions".

Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme, he says:

"I think there is merit in Labour continuing their vote of no confidence in the entire government, because actually that would get us in a legal sense to where we need to be which is to go back to the people of Scotland and ask for new instructions.

"The political paralysis that has gripped the SNP - not just in the last week but for many of the last months just can't continue."

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Meghan Gallacher, deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives, says her party are prioritising holding the government to account.

“We are focused on holding this government to account. We have been a strong opposition, that was the promise we made to voters,” she tells BBC Breakfast, adding that a vote of no confidence is still on the table.

Gallacher says there are two votes of no confidence tabled for this week, one on the first minister and another on the SNP.

She explains that one vote was submitted by the Conservatives, and the other by Scottish Labour. But whether or not they will both go ahead "will be decided over the course of the next day or so", as debates still need to take place.

The Scottish Conservatives deputy says that if the Scottish Labour’s vote goes ahead, her party will support it.

But Gallacher adds that she won’t be supporting any SNP candidate when the vote comes to parliament.

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Lorna Slater, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, says Scotland's current political landscape is a result of the "inevitable fallout" from Humza Yousaf's decision to resign as the SNP's leader yesterday.

She told BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning that he had decided on "abandoning a progressive, pro-independent majority government".

Slater says this "extraordinary" decision puts the SNP in a "difficult" position where they'll have to "negotiate every single vote, chase votes from other parties" in the Scottish Parliament.

“What kind of party are they going to be now?”

Dr Coree Brown Swan, a lecturer in British politics at Stirling University, talks us through the process after Humza Yousaf’s resignation as first minister.

Speaking to Good Morning Scotland on BBC Radio Scotland, Swan thinks that Yousaf refraining from resignation with immediate effect is “very important”.

“It means that the 28 day countdown for the parliament to choose the new first minister has not yet been triggered.”

“It's now up to the SNP's National Executive Council. They will decide the timeline of the leadership election and it looks like the nominations are now open. If there is more than one candidate, there will be a leadership contest so the members will have their vote. If there is only one candidate they still get the nominations, but it doesn’t go out to the members for the vote,” she explains.

When asked about a possible Scottish parliamentary election this year, Swan answers “I don’t think at this point there would be any attempt to spark such an election this year.”

Jenni Davidson
BBC Scotland, senior politics reporter

Two names are being talked about as the possible successors to Humza Yousaf, namely John Swinney and Kate Forbes.

A number of senior figures in the SNP have already backed John Swinney including the party's deputy leader Keith Brown and its Westminster leader Stephen Flynn.

Kate Forbes, who stood against Humza Yousaf in last year's SNP leadership race, has the backing of backbenchers Fergus Ewing and Annabelle Ewing with Fergus Ewing saying she would be better able to articulate a fresh start for the party than John Swinney.

While John Swinney has said he is actively considering whether to stand, Kate Forbes is yet to say whether she would make another bid to become party leader.

Most of Tuesday's papers lead on Humza Yousaf's resignation. He has been Scotland's first minster for just over a year, serving as the party's shortest leader since devolution.

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The Scotsman, external describes Yousaf's decision last week 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, external, journalist Andrew Neil argues that hopes of Scottish independence are now "dead for a generation, if not longer", adding that the union is safe for the foreseeable future. Neil describes Yousaf as a "hapless nonentity, who was never up to the job".

"Swin It To Win It" is the Scottish Sun's headline., external The paper says Nicola Sturgeon's former right-hand man, John Swinney, is "the hot favourite" to take over from Mr Yousaf.

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

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Humza Yousaf has said he will remain as first minister until his successor is chosen.

The Scottish Parliament then has 28 days to nominate a replacement for Yousaf once his resignation has been accepted by the King.

If there was only one candidate for the parliamentary nomination, they would only need a simple majority of votes in favour to secure the nomination.

In the event that several party leaders put themselves forward for the election, as was the case when Humza Yousaf was confirmed as first minister last year, any candidate that secured more than half of all votes would win the nomination.

Yousaf's position as first minister is ironically more settled now he has announced his resignation, with the Scottish Greens saying they would not back a motion of no confidence in him or the government this week.

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Humza Yousaf yesterday announced his decision to resign, barely a year after being appointed as first minister.

He said he had "underestimated" the level of hurt caused after ending a power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens last week, which triggered two no-confidence votes.

Yousaf said relationships could only be repaired by a new leader, and insisted it would have been possible to survive no-confidence votes, but did not want to cut a deal just to stay in power.

Yousaf is not the shortest serving Scottish FM - that record is held by Henry McLeish - but his fall from office after just 13 months is a remarkable event for a government which was known for its continuity and longevity of leadership.

When he became Scotland's sixth first minister in March 2023, Yousaf was seen as the continuity candidate and the natural heir to Nicola Sturgeon's vision for Scotland.

Read more: The rise and fall of Humza Yousaf

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage, as the race to replace Humza Yousaf as Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader gets under way.

As a reminder, Yousaf announced his resignation yesterday, saying he had “clearly underestimated” the hurt caused by his decision to end a power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens.

The move sparked two votes of no confidence, which he was at risk of losing.

Former deputy first minister John Swinney quickly emerged as the frontrunner to succeed Yousaf, having received the backing of several senior SNP figures, including the party's Westminster leader, Stephen Flynn.

Kate Forbes, who Yousaf narrowly defeated in the leadership race barely a year ago, was also talked of as a contender.

This story is expected to rumble on throughout the day, so stay with us as we bring you the latest developments and analysis.

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