“The trick to running a minority government is to have the opposition more frightened of an election than you are. And it's not certain that that's the position in the Scottish government and parliament at the present moment. I think the SNP are probably the most frightened of an election of all.”

Former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond says that Humza Yousaf has made Alba's Ash Regan the "most powerful MSP in the Scottish Parliament".

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