And weve brought out the lettuce , yes, we have here he is. Humza yousaf leaf. The question is, will the Scottish First minister last longer than our friend here . Than our leafy lettuce friend . Lettuce friend . Has his career hit an iceberg . Lets us. I dont know, the average lifetime of a lettuce after. After you pick it off the shelf. I mean , is it a week . Is it a i mean, is it a week . Is it a bit less than a week . Well, it outlasted liz truss, did it not . So that must have been at least. What is it, 49 days. Well, no, but that that was always not quite true though, because the daily star only got out the lettuce a good way into her premiership, so it didnt really outlast. Anyway, were getting into specifics. So pedantic. Yeah so pedantic. The question is, from this point on, i say, id say this lettuce will sort of be able to live pretty happily, maybe for the next week before it starts getting really, really grim and we sort of want to get it out of the office. We should say if last that long. Yeah. Will he last that long . We should say that humza yousaf is going to be doing giving a speech. We dont know what hes going to say. Maybe hell come out strongly saying he can continue to run scotland with a minority government. But it does seem like everything is crumbling around him, doesnt it . First lesson in politics is learn to count. 64 first lesson in politics is learn to count. 64 members of the Scottish Parliament, currently are saying he should go. 63 currently say he should stay and one hasnt made her mind up yet. Yes, if i was a betting woman i probably wouldnt put much on him lasting very long. But we shall see. See what hes got to say this afternoon. But yes. Will he leaf or remain . Very good, very good. Well, gbnews. Com forward slash. Your say is the way to get involved orindeed say is the way to get involved or indeed to just tell me off for being quite so silly with arts and crafts. Please do, please do teach him a lesson. Teach him a lesson. Should we get your headlines . Good afternoon. Its 12 03. Im sophia wenzler in the gb newsroom. Im scotlands first newsroom. Im scotlands first minister, has cancelled a planned speech on independence as he faces a leadership contest next week. Its after the collapse of the snps power sharing deal with the greens yesterday, leaving humza yousaf in charge of a minority government. The greens are said to have been angered by scotlands nhs pausing puberty blockers for those under 18 and the abandonment of the countrys emissions target. A vote against mr yousaf wouldnt automatically end his term as first minister, but it would throw doubt over his ability to govern a former parliamentary researcher has been ordered not to contact mps after he was charged with spying for china. Christopher cash , for china. Christopher cash, whos 29, and 32 year old Christopher Berry are accused of offences under the official secrets act. The pair appeared secrets act. 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Interesting the news came as terms of use of abruptly cancelled a planned speech at Strathclyde University, as speculation intensified about whether he will remain in his post. Well, lets go to edinburgh now and speak to gb news scotland reporter tony maguire, because, tony, this has been an accelerating story. Clearly frantic conversations going on behind the scenes today. But were expecting to hear from humza yousaf a little bit later. Humza yousaf a little bit later. Yeah, thats correct tom. Certainly humza yousaf was expected to be speaking at Strathclyde University today on the merits of the labour force in an independent scotland, that, of course , was scrapped that, of course, was scrapped give or take around 9 00 this morning , right after westminster morning, right after westminster snp leader Stephen Flynn said that humza yousaf would come out swinging. Well coming out swinging, hes going to have another opportunity to do that in around an hour or so from now. Hes going to be speaking at a social Housing Development in his native dundee, and its expected that well perhaps hear a bit more when the press finally gets to ask their questions of him. Then quite a whirlwind of an occasion, really, not just up here, but i think its safe to say felt right around the country , humza right around the country, humza yousaf went into that extraordinary Cabinet Meeting yesterday morning fully expecting to come out feeling this was going to be a move of strength for the snp , to move strength for the snp, to move away from those almost , those away from those almost, those progressive green policies which have sown something of a rift within his own party, i think if we look at tuesday in parliament, there was a, a vote on, the new justice act and how they were looking at that. Now that justice act, believe it or not, passed with or that motion passed with with 60 votes, but there was also 62 abstentions. And i think the feeling from humza yousaf was definitely, well, if the greens were part of the bute house agreement, part of this government, in order to provide stability in terms of voting , then you know, he would voting, then you know, he would much rather have his own msps. Now, of course, this vote of no confidence, lets talk about the first one weve got, Douglas Rosss vote of no confidence in humza yousaf. It certainly seems like even if , ash humza yousaf. It certainly seems like even if, ash regan is to vote on side with humza yousaf and the snp, then certainly the vote will. Final vote will fall on alison johnson. Shes the on alison johnson. Shes the presiding officer of the Scottish Parliament and a former green msp now voting Convention States that she would probably vote with the government , but vote with the government, but certainly that would also mean against her old former party, but now almost superseding that is scottish labours vote of no confidence in the government that supersedes it. Because if the snp so snp government lose that vote, then theyre legally bound to basically dissolve parliament and dissolve government. And we would be heading towards a scottish election. Can you believe that that might happen before the next westminster election . Absolutely. Fascinating thank you very much indeed. Tony mcguire, our scotland reporter there in edinburgh, were now joined by freelance columnist Alastair Stewart for some further analysis, alastair, thank you very much indeed for joining us. How much trouble is humza yousuf in and do you think hell last the day. Hell last the day. I think hell last a day but i think he is in more trouble than perhaps even he knows that he is. Yesterday it feels a whirlwind ago now, but he started that day thinking he was in a powerful position and reasserting his authority by chucking the scottish greens out of his own government. Now they are two ministers, but it seems that the snp is now very much collapsing under the weight of 17 years of distraction and policies that are now coming back to haunt them. There is only so much damage that the greens leaving government could do. Clearly the pile on is taking place, led by the scottish conservatives and now the Scottish Labour Party is double downing on blood in the water. And as anyone will tell you that once blood is in the water its very hard to get it out. So even if mr yousaf survives the no confidence vote in him as first minister, theres now a vote of no confidence in his government and thats going to be incredibly hard to shake. Even if he managed to scrape through, hypothetically, both of those challenges to his authority as a former Prime Minister once said, when the herd moves, it moves. It certainly feels like the herd is moving in holyrood today. But were expecting these two. No confidence motions. One, as tony explained in humza yousaf as first minister and one in the Scottish Government as a whole , Scottish Government as a whole, frankly, humza yousaf has got to do some dealing with someone that he once seemed pretty glad to be rid of from his party. The former leadership contender ash regan. Theres a great deal of irony associated with this situation twofold, in fact. One is that ash regan is now a member of the alba party, which is led by alex salmond, which mr yousaf has been extremely critical of in recent months and years. And now recent months and years. And now mr regan finds herself in a position where she actually needs to cast what is effectively one of the final votes on it. Now. She was laughed out of the leadership election that mr yousaf subsequently won. Shes not been taken seriously since, and now she finds herself very much as a kingmaker for his entire future in politics, irony does occasionally come about, but this is a particularly hurtful bout of karma for anyone in the snp who is laughing at alex salmond and laughing at ash regan and not taking their chances of a comeback seriously , chances of a comeback seriously, because they are very much now here and they have something to say. Say. And if humza yousaf does resign, if hes forced out with these no confidence votes , whos these no confidence votes, whos there to replace him . Oh, we are joined now by Katherine Forster. Oh no were not. Im asking essentially what happens next is alistair still with us . Im hoping he is. Alistair what happens . What happens next . Whos in the running . Potentially to take over the top job there . I, truth be told, at this stage, i think its impossible to speculate on. But i think the people who most need to reflect on that question are the snp themselves. Speaking with friends in the party, speaking with associates in the party, you do get a feeling that theyve never quite comfortably sat with mr yousaf over the last yeah sat with mr yousaf over the last year. So i have a sneaking suspicion that a few of them already have in the back of their minds candidates to put forward. This, inevitably, was going to happen. Hes never cemented his position, certainly not stronger as his two predecessors. But the partys itself has a lot of soul searching to do. The candidate that does come forward is someone who is ultimately going to have to work with opposition parties. In a to have to work with opposition parties. In a way thats not happened recently. Independence is unlikely to overtake serious policy issues in scottish politics again for a long time. So you need a serious candidate to come forward with serious solutions. Whos happy to work with opposition parties. It was a surprise , i think, it was a surprise, i think, to many people that humza yousaf didnt win the leadership election by the degree, by which people were expecting he would win a year ago. It was much, much closer than people would have thought against kate forbes , someone who was painted in the media as a sort of christian extremist. But i wonder if extremist. But i wonder if actually none of those candidates will now be the people sort of leading the snp forward. The name that seems to be doing the rounds is neil grey. Someone from much more sort of central casting of the snp, perhaps quite a boring man, but maybe someone who can keep this fractious ship together. I think theres definitely an argument to be made there that someone whos worked on the back benches, perhaps someone whos been strong within committees in the Scottish Parliament, is the stable pair of hands that you need to guide the ship as it goes forward. Certainly, if the party hopes to survive until the next scottish election. Kfir bibas was a very interesting candidate at the last election. The last snp leadership election, certainly because she was put forward as someone who was put forward as someone who was economically literate , who was economically literate, who was economically literate, who was competent and had less of a focus. It was still on her, on her agenda, of course, but less of a focus on independence. If of a focus on independence. If you listen to her speak, then her emphasis was much more on solving problems within scottish pubuc solving problems within scottish public life. Whoever comes forward if someone has to come forward, is going to have to be someone whos prepared to put those policy priorities front and centre and independent. Second, absolutely. Second, absolutely. Thank you very much indeed. Alistair stewart, freelance columnist. To great speak to you, thank you very much. I remember the leadership contest. Kate forbes was unfairly maligned , was she not . Well, maligned, was she not . Well, shes a christian, a christian views. And they were very normal christian views. It seems, though, that she think they were shes sort of mainstream of i dont think they were the most normal. What does she say that was so extreme . She took a view on abortion that i think most christians in the uk wouldnt take the particular church she was a member of is seen as being a bit more hard line than many churches that people are members of in the uk in general, i think. I think she wasnt bang slap in the middle of bog standard christian theology. I think she was perhaps a little bit more evangelical than many people might be interested. People might be interested. She seems to be keeping backing kumsa yousuf through all this turmoil, which is very interesting indeed. But should we move on to Something Else .