Humza Yousaf, Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater must accept the inevitable. The Bute House Agreement has not worked and it would be best if the SNP and Greens now went their separate ways.

Nicola Sturgeon fell short of an overall majority at the 2021 Holyrood elections and was keen to take her party into a political marriage of convenience.

Independence supporters were initially delighted as many at the time were still convinced an IndyRef2 was a realistic prospect. But that plan was shredded on sight by the Supreme Court and the SNP-Green partnership has struggled for credibility since.

Instead of major constitutional reforms, the Scottish Government has become bogged down in a series of botched domestic policies.

The failure to deliver a workable recycling scheme for single-use drinks containers was an embarrassment. It was the kind of environmental policy the Greens........

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