SNP ends power-sharing deal with Scottish Greens over climate strategy, reports say

Cabinet votes to leave historic Bute House agreement after government abandons emissions target

The historic power-sharing agreement between the Scottish National party and Scottish Greens is to end after a crisis over the Scottish government’s climate strategy, reports say.

The Bute House agreement was signed by the then SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie in August 2021, bringing the Greens into government for the first time in the UK.

Humza Yousaf, Sturgeon’s successor as first minister, convened an emergency cabinet meeting early on Thursday after SNP backbenchers began openly attacking the deal.

The BBC and other media reported that his cabinet agreed at that meeting to end the agreement.

The Scottish Greens had been due to hold their own emergency meeting later in May on whether to leave the agreement after the Scottish government abandoned its target of cutting carbon emissions by 75% by 2030.

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