ACCORDING to a wise old sage, a week is long time in politics and for Lorna Slater and Patrick Harvie this is certainly the case.

This time last week, the Greens pair had access to ministerial limousines and were members of the Scottish cabinet thanks to the Bute House Agreement.

Then former first minister Humza Yousaf threw the mother of all hissy fits and scrapped the agreement on a whim thus turfing the Greens out on a limb. Of course, it didn’t end well for Mr Yousaf either.

Now Ms Slater and Mr Harvie are reduced to carping at their old chums in the SNP from the sidelines and it seems that they are still raging at the ending of the agreement.

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