• Humza Yousaf, has determined he will not pass a vote of confidence and will step down on Monday.
• The government‘s decision to abandon a target to reduce carbon emissions by 75% by 2030.
• Following the resignation of longtime leader Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP had a turbulent year.

First Minister of Scotland, Humza Yousaf, has determined he will not pass a vote of confidence and will step down on Monday. Last Thursday, Yousaf terminated the power-sharing arrangement between his party and the Greens, saying that the cooperation agreement had fulfilled its intended purpose.

The government’s decision to abandon a target to reduce carbon emissions by 75% by 2030 and claim it was impossible caused tensions with the Greens to escalate last week.

Humza Yousaf

With the backing of the opposition Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, the opposition Conservatives presented a motion of no confidence in Yousaf.

Following the resignation of longtime leader Nicola Sturgeon, the SNP had a turbulent year. Yousaf sought to restore the party’s reputation around stable administration in light of the anticipated UK-wide election in the second half of the year.

As the most successful and prominent political party in Britain, the Scottish National Party was elected to the Scottish parliament with a landslide in 2011 and went on to win 50% of the Scottish vote and 56 of Scotland’s 59 Westminster districts in the UK election of 2015.