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Humza Yousaf should have listened to women like Ash Regan about gender self-ID Susan Dalgety

Humza Yousaf is currently facing a vote on his future as First Minister. Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

Explainer What happens if Humza Yousaf wins a vote of no confidence?

The SNP is in crisis - but could this lead to a Scottish election?

Explainer Will there be a Scottish election?

First Minister Humza Yousaf holds a press conference as he announces the SNP will withdraw from the Bute House Agreement. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

What is a motion of no confidence and how does it work?

Scottish Labour to table no confidence motion in Scottish Government

Analysis 'Humza the Brief'? The First Minister teeters on the brink of political disaster

Humza Yousaf reacts as he answers questions during First Minister's Questions at Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Analysis Will Humza Yousaf be forced out after vote of no confidence?

The Scottish Government has been criticised over delays to a wind farm.

SNP accused of 'letting jobs slip away' over offshore wind farm delay

Scottish Conservatives justice spokesman Russell Findlay described the Hate Crime Act as a 'clipe's charter'

Tory demands for Hate Crime Act to be repealed are rejected by MSPs

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking at the STUC conference in Dundee. Image: Andrew Milligan/Press Association.

Anas Sarwar calls for UK arms sales to Israel to be stopped

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar. Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

Anas Sarwar to pledge to strengthen workers’ rights at trade union meeting

SNP's incompetent government leaves Scotland mired in age of political regret Jackie Baillie

Keir Starmer with Labour candidate Wilma Brown during a visit to Kirkcaldy High Street. Picture: Robert Perry/Getty Images

Scottish Labour candidate suspended after 'racist' tweet accusations

The polling shows the first lead for Sir Keir Starmer's party since 2014.

Labour lead SNP in Scotland for first time since indyref, poll shows

A year after Sturgeon and Murrell arrests, SNP dominance has been shattered Jackie Baillie

New polling makes grim reading for SNP MPs hoping to return to Westminster at the next election.

SNP could slip to just 19 seats after next election, poll suggests

Johann Lamont. Picture: Jane Barlow

Politics in Scotland ‘is glib and immature’, says former Scottish Labour leader

SNP Social Justice Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville. Picture: Fraser Bremner/WPA pool/Getty Images

Labour demands action after 116 die while waiting for support

First Minister Humza Yousaf (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Humza Yousaf has admitted there is 'no shortcut' to independence

Yousaf has lower favourability rating among Scots than Sturgeon, poll finds

Liam McArthur MSP signs a pledge card in support of his Assisted Dying Bill at the Scottish Parliament (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Assisted dying corrodes the golden rule of medicine to 'first do no harm'

Former prime minister Tony Blair with his deputy prime minister John Prescott and chief of staff Jonathan Powell. Image: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.

Scottish Labour predicts an election victory like that of Tony Blair in 1997

Humza Yousaf after speaking at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, after it was announced that he is the new Scottish National Party leader

Yousaf deemed ‘weak leader’ and ‘disaster’ as rivals give verdict one year on

Anas Sarwar and Sir Keir Starmer at last month's Scottish Labour Conference (Picture: Lisa Ferguson)

Readers' letters: Anas Sarwar lacks any genuine principles

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Oil and gas chiefs have warned Labour's plans could put investment at risk

Sorry Humza, the force is with Labour, not the SNP or the Tories Jackie Baillie

Students from the University of Edinburgh. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Universities chief warns of course closures and job cuts without funding change

Humza Yousaf at the SNP's campaign conference. Image: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.

SNP campaign conference - are we back in 2019?

Humza Yousaf. Picture: Andy Buchanan

SNP set to hold ‘campaign council’ as polls show party neck and neck with Labour

SNP plan to tackle Scotland's drug-death crisis is not working Jackie Baillie

Why is Scotland seeing rising numbers of unemployed young Scots, asks reader? (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Scotsman Letters: Many more young people could be in work right now

Anas Sarwar's Scottish Labour is neck and neck with the SNP ahead of the next general election, according to new poll. Picture: Lisa Ferguson/National World.

SNP and Labour level in general election voting, poll suggests

Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon this week urged her party to help rid politics of 'toxic' misogyny (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Political parties must protect women from abuse

Police restrain picketers outside a pit during the miners' strike in the 1980s

Fresh call for public inquiry into policing of 1984/85 miners’ strike

Thousands of Scots could have died because of long waits in A&E departments across Scotland. Image: Jeff Moore/Press Association.

Hundreds of Scots dying after waiting up to five days in A&E

Scottish Labour MSP Monica Lennon said she has has experienced more than her 'fair share' of 'ugly' social media comments, and previously had to call police to her home over harassment and security fears. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Former leadership contender says party must avoid complacency

Labour MPs claim Spring Budget about 'burning house down'

Keith Brown is wrong about SNP MPs abandoning Westminster parliament Stewart McDonald

Budget leaves SNP to right of Tories on oil-and-gas windfall tax Jackie Baillie

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Ross urges pro-UK voters to back the Tories in a bid to oust ‘dud’ Yousaf

SNP National Care Service plan is shambles that will not tackle crisis Jackie Baillie

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross's party is currently polling third in Scotland.

Scottish Tories take polling hit ahead of party conference

Exclusive Lee Anderson fuelling 'cesspit' of Islamophobia online, says Anas Sarwar

David Whitehouse, CEO of Offshore Energies UK. Picture: Michal Wachucik/Abermedia

Green industrial revolution ‘in the balance’, says offshore industry chief

SNP shouldn’t assume that wanders will return to the fold Euan McColm

Old attitudes of male trade unionists against women appear to die hard Susan Dalgety

It's official: There is no vision to save the NHS in Scotland Jackie Baillie

Chaos in the Commons points to a very ugly election in Scotland Joyce McMillan

Humza Yousaf reacts as he answers questions during First Minister's Questions at the Scottish Parliament. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Yousaf to 'stand up for North East' against Labour's windfall tax 'raid'

Scots remember the growth that united Labour governments delivered George Foulkes

There are good reasons why Starmer's ceasefire speak differs from the SNP Euan McColm

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer

Labour calls for ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’ in Gaza

Humza Yousaf delivers a speech on the future of Scotland's energy sector in Aberdeen. Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire

Humza Yousaf launches attack on Labour’s ‘aggressive’ North Sea tax plans

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has faced criticism over plans to extend the windfall tax.

Analysis: Labour not flinching on windfall tax despite criticism

Erikka Askeland is a former senior business writer, founder of Mediacraft, and Associate at the Freer Consultancy

Labour risks killing off the goose that lays the black-gold egg - Erikka Askelan...

Labour is proposing to increase the windfall tax on UK production of oil and gas to 78% – the same as in Norway – if elected to government, but industry leaders have warned that 42,000 jobs could be lost as a result

Oil and gas: Crisis talks as Labour pledges tax hike for energy giants

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