Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, has insisted that the power-sharing deal that brought his party into government at Holyrood “benefits Scotland”.
It has been two years since the signing of the Bute House agreement, which included guarantees to see through gender reform legislation, the creation of highly protected marine areas and the delivery of the bottle return scheme, many of which stoked division with the SNP.
In recent weeks Kate Forbes, the former finance minister who narrowly lost the SNP leadership race to Humza Yousaf, has called for the Greens deal to be renegotiated and other MSPs including the former cabinet secretary Fergus Ewing said that it should be scrapped because it was “dragging the SNP down”.
Ewing believes the pact is
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