Yousaf insisted that he would not resign as first minister and vowed to fight on following intense speculation about his leadership after he axed the SNP's governing agreement with the Scottish Greens on Thursday morning, provoking a furious response that resulted in his former partners pledging to vote with the Tories against him.
Holyrood arithmetic now leaves the deciding vote with one woman, Ash Regan, whom he beat to the SNP leadership last March and who has since defected to Alex Salmond's Alba party.
After two days of high political drama, the SNP leader was in bullish mood, telling reporters at an event in Dundee: "I will absolutely be taking us into a general election and 2026 Scottish parliament elections." He told Sky News: "I intend absolutely to fight that vote of no confidence, I've got every intention of winning that vote of no confidence." But Yousaf also offered an olive branch to the Scottish Greens, saying that he had "heard their anger" after he tore up the Bute House Agreement, brokered by Nicola Sturgeon in 2021, blind-siding both supporters and opponents.
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