Announced hes to resign. Hes been under growing pressure after he ripped up a Power Sharing Deal with the scottish green party. Hes been facing a vote of No Confidence, he released an emotional statement today, and we have a report from lorna gordon who can tell us what happened today. Over the next half an hour, we will go through all of the implications with the bbc s special correspondent allan little, who is with me here. At westminster, were joined by our Political Correspondent nick eardley. This starts with Nicola Sturgeon, whose great strength as a politician is placing herself at the heart of huge grassroots Progressive Coalition, people very committed to the Progressive Causes which characterised her leadership. One of the things she could have been failed to have done is to carry Public Opinion with her, committing to the Progressive Causes has always been much more strongly rooted in the Independence Movement than scottish public as a whole. So her government and humza yous
For Scottish Politics. Humza yousaf has stepped down as snp leader and scotlands First Minister afterjust over a year in office. His politicalfuture had been uncertain after the Shock Announcement last thursday, that he was ending Power Sharing with the scottish greens they clashed with the Scottish Government on its approach to gender reform and climate targets. He had been facing two votes of no confidence in the Scottish Parliament. The snp now have 28 days to find a new leader who is supported by a majority at holyrood. And we can go live to edinburgh, and our correspondent laura maciver. A very good evening to you. Humza yousaf started today as the First Minister of scotland and Leader Of The Snp. He ends it with that party looking for a new leader, and there will be a successor to him first got his First Minister. It was an emotionalfirst his First Minister. It was an emotional First Minister who made his Resignation Statement earlier, and james cook has been following the events
Turbulence, and it turns so it is scotlands turn for a blast of political turbulence, and it turns out westminster does not have a monopoly on these things. Today matters, of course, for scotlands governess but it matters if you are in devizes as well as dundee, wherever you are in the uk, and that is because of the size of the snps political footprint. That is why its political rivals are seizing this moment. Well, it is for scotland and the Scottish Parliament to decide who the First Minister is. But what is happening now with the snp is that the mask is slipping. People in scotland are realising that Public Services are worse. The scottish people have been fundamentally let down. One in seven are on waiting list, there is a Cost Of Living crisis, and all the snp can offer is chaos. We have to turn the page on this now. We need an election and a fresh start. Ah, yes, the General Election. It could be a sticky moment at any time for the snp but it is particularly one with a General El
Some rain. Some wetter weather to begin with earlier today across Northern Ireland, being replaced by sunshine and sharp showers but the rain is pushing further into scotland, still affecting western parts of england and wales. Further east, likely to stay dry. Sunnier skies more towards east anglia, lincolnshire and the south east, temperatures here reaching 17 or 18. To the west, still stuck at around 13 or 1a. As we were over the weekend. Wet weather to end the day across northern and western isles. It should become drier with clearer spells in scotland and we will see it turning drier Northern Ireland before we get rain later. Still cloudy across Northern England and wales to the south west with more rain later. Clearer skies in the south east, minimum temperature 6 or 7. Tomorrow, more rain in western areas, but whether pushing back into Northern Ireland for a while. Rain returning to wales and the south west. A little rain for the far West Of Scotland otherwise it may well be joy
Photograph of the prince and princess of wales as they celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary. Tampa sport and a round up from gabbing. England Rugby Union International Billy Vunipola has apologised and paid a fine after being charged in spain, following an alleged incident. The bbc understands he was tasered by police on the island of majorca after they were called to a bar in the islands capital. Vunipola called it a misunderstanding and said there was no violence. Our sports news correspondent laura scott has more. We know that this incident involving Billy Vunipola happened at a club on majorca in the early hours of sunday morning. The number eight, who has played for england on 75 occasions, described what happened as an unfortunate misunderstanding that got out of hand. We know police were called to the club, we understand he was tasered and arrested, and he was later charged and appeared in court. However, he said in a Statement Released today that, contrary to media reports,