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Humza Yousaf, Scotland's First Minister, is a collector's item. So wonderfully shifty!
The lazy eyelids, the over-rehearsed concern, the self-glorification, the blazing insincerity. It's nearly enough – if only the SNP's tax rates weren't so stinging – to make a sketchwriter consider moving to Edinburgh.
Mr Yousaf held a press conference after the collapse of his coalition with the Greens. Earlier he had called in his two Green ministers and given them the boot.
Or maybe that should be the gumboot. Never share a bed with a vegetarian. Oldest rule in the book.
The two Greenies, robbed of their ministerial tandem, were hopping mad and stomped away from Bute House, the First Minister's neo-classical Robert Adam mansion.
Humza Yousaf delivers a press conference at Bute House in Edinburgh as he announces the end of the power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens
Yousaf was questioned by journalists about the end of the agreement, accompanied by a sign language interpreter
An animated Humza Yousaf in the Scottish Parliament on Thursday after the SNP's power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens collapsed
Mr Yousaf speaking in parliament after the deal collapsed over what the Greens had seen as a gradual side-lining of their policies by the SNP
An enterprising BBC reporter pursued the duo down the street while asking them questions. He was lucky not to find himself strangled by a peace-rainbow lanyard.
'This is leadership!' cried Mr Yousaf after summoning reporters to the drawing room that serves as Bute House's media suite. He stood in front of the ornately mirrored Georgian fireplace where Alex Salmond quit in 2014.
An antique vase was standing on the chimney-piece. Amazing it wasn't smashed by the Greens as they left in a huff.
'It was leadership,' repeated Mr Yousaf. 'I've not been pushed. I'm still First Minister of Scotland.' So he was, though that did not stop this outsider from wondering how on earth the SNP ever chose such a cartoon charlatan in the first place.
'I'm confident with that decision,' said Mr Yousaf, affecting a smile. 'I'm
