Humza Yousaf puts SNP on election footing after coalition with Greens collapses

Scottish first minister says scrapping power-sharing deal marks a new beginning for the SNP government'

Humza Yousaf has put the Scottish National party on an election footing after unilaterally scrapping his party's landmark coalition with the Greens and signalling he will drop vote-losing policies.

In a surprise move on Thursday morning, the first minister called in the Scottish Greens' two co-leaders, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, to tell them they were being sacked as he axed a power-sharing deal first hailed as a new era in consensus politics.