Scotland’s outgoing first minister, who announced on Monday he would quit, lacked political guile, his rivals say
Humza Yousaf at Bute House, his official residence in Edinburgh, to announce his resignation as SNP leader and Scotland 's first minister. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/Getty Imagesbefore he quit on Monday amid the fallout from the collapse of his governing coalition with the Scottish Greens. Yet in the minds of some of his rivals, it was never likely to have ended much differently.
“What he really lacked was strength,” said one rather less-than-magnanimous rival of his on Monday morning, as political observers in Scotland wondered just how on earth the erstwhile first minister had allowed it all to happen.
Then, seemingly out of nowhere, he sacked the two Green ministers last week and promised that the SNP would go it alone from then on as a minority government. He tried to appear strong, but ended up looking weak instead.
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