Announced hes to resign. Hes been under growing pressure after he ripped up a Power Sharing Deal with the scottish green party. Hes been facing a vote of No Confidence, he released an emotional statement today, and we have a report from lorna gordon who can tell us what happened today. Over the next half an hour, we will go through all of the implications with the bbc s special correspondent allan little, who is with me here. At westminster, were joined by our Political Correspondent nick eardley. This starts with Nicola Sturgeon, whose great strength as a politician is placing herself at the heart of huge grassroots Progressive Coalition, people very committed to the Progressive Causes which characterised her leadership. One of the things she could have been failed to have done is to carry Public Opinion with her, committing to the Progressive Causes has always been much more strongly rooted in the Independence Movement than scottish public as a whole. So her government and humza yous
did he betray the voting public in a sense because he didn t admit that the actions existed while running? well, he didn t do that. we don t know. yes, no and he s walking it back. i think he is in the yearbook. i don t think there s any doubt about at that in my mind. the bigger point in terms of betraying african american voters. they didn t vote for him based on something that happened or may not have happened but probably did happen 30 years ago. they voted for him because they saw a democrat that in fact, had a fairly evolving moderate to progressive legislative agenda. that s what they based it on. there was a political savviness on the part of african american voters. i got to tell you, as to the point about, is there redemption there, can, in fact, he atone, can in fact he be a model, a walking, living, breathing teaching model for what was wrong in the past and i was part of that and what could be changed in the present and the