What’s happened?
The Scottish National Party’s (SNP) new leader, Humza Yousaf, set out his priorities in his maiden speech to the Holyrood parliament as Scotland’s first minister on Tuesday – promising a “fresh start” that would “seize the opportunities of net zero to build a green wellbeing economy”. Yousaf, formerly the health minister under Nicola Sturgeon, said his government would reduce poverty, support small businesses and use all his government’s power to mitigate the effects of what he called the UK’s failed economic model. But the speech was overshadowed by the ongoing ructions engulfing the governing party
