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
He set out because he wasn t sort of framing in any way bigger gains other than, again, just the donbas was the area he was talking about. so i think it gives him that opportunity, and it gives him the ambiguity to reach further, longer than we know were his original intent and he clearly hasn t given up on yet. it must be becoming apparent to him as it is to everyone else that his ground effects have so far been limited and to stretch towards odessa and along the black sea coast as he originally appears to have intended. at the moment, that s a stretch he can t manage. so i think there is ambiguity there that allows him to scale back original objectives into a manageable sell at the end of what may be yet a more costly conflict for him. and meanwhile, nic, we did