The SNP has scrapped its power-sharing deal with the Scottish Greens, according to reports.
The Bute House Agreement was reportedly dropped following an emergency Cabinet meeting at Bute House in Edinburgh earlier this morning.
The deal, which was signed in 2021 and is named after the official residence of the Scottish First Minister in Edinburgh, brought the Green Party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK.
It comes as there were growing tensions between the SNP, which is the largest party at Holyrood, and the Scottish Greens, who are currently theirjunior partners in the Scottish Government.
The Greens were angered when the Scottish Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan announced last week the Scottish Government was to ditch a key climate change target.
That, combined with the decision to pause the use of puberty blockers for new patients attending the only Scottish gender identity clinic for children in Glasgow, resulted in the Greens saying last week that they would have a vote on the future of the power-sharing deal.
That vote is expected to take place later on in May, but it now appears the SNP could end the Bute House Agreement before that.
Without the deal, the SNP would need to operate as a minority administration at Holyrood.
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