maximum effect to support economic growth for a purpose pushed up to help businesses and trade to thrive and to maximise the opportunity for and to maximise the opportunity for a fair green economy. a crucial part of this is about making a just transition to net zero. we will never do to oil and gas workers in the north east of scotland what thatcher did to our mining and steel communities. applause. we will take the workers of the north east andy hall scotland with us on our green journey. the scotland programme on its own, for example, offers the potential of £28 billion of supply chain work based in scotland. our renewable energy resources will also help us to develop a hydrogen sector, which is why a focus for the next three years is to lay our foundations in scotland. we will also continue to support innovations through policies such as these, we hope to make scott one of the leading missions and business, health, life sciences, digital industry, and advanced manufactur
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To Lord Of The Dance. Michael flatley on 30 years since that life changing eurovision moment. Good morning. Today in the west it will be fairly cloudy, wet and windy. Further east we are looking at drier and brighter conditions with some sunshine but sao is coming to the south east later. All of the detail throughout the programme. Its tuesday the 30th of april. The Scottish National party has officially started the process to find a new leader, after humza yousaf announced his resignation as scotlands First Minister. He quit ahead of two no confidence votes at holyrood which were due to be held in the wake of his decision to eject to Scottish Greens from his power sharing government. Nominations to replace him opened just before midnight. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. Politically, there was nowhere left for humza yousaf to go. His leadership fatally wounded, not by his party or by the voters, but by himself. And so this admission that his time as First Minister had
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