The old progressive politics is dead – Humza's resignation proves it
The myth of a liberally progressive “centre ground” finally died in a fitful sleep at noon today. As Humza Yousaf resigned as SNP leader, struggling to hold back tears as he delivered a speech that mingled arrogance and regret, grace and fire, modest concern at having hurt the feelings of his Green colleagues, and bombastic denunciations of the toxic culture war, the last remaining satrapy of social democratic internationalism collapsed.