By james art 
G -Ja Sturgeon brought the Government Greens to the Government for the first time in the UK with the Bute House agreement in 2021.
But G -N -Usaf, who inherited her as a Scottish first minister and SNP leader, finished him dramatically in 2024 – a solution that quickly led to his own resignation.
Speaking of his decision, Da Sturgeon told the Institute for Government Brain Trust: “I think the breakdown of this agreement is catastrophic and – aside politics – a completely wrong thing to do for a stable government.”
Her comments came when G -N -Usaf talks about his own “real regret” at the speed at which he terminated the deal.
He told the Government Institute that he wanted to “take more time to express him and to reach an almost mutual agreement” with Patrick Harvey and Lorna Slater, the co-leaders of the Greens, who are both junior ministers in the deal.
However, with members of the Scottish Green Party party, who must vote for the future of the agreement, Jusaf said he had made the decision to end things alone before being “thrown out of the Greens”.
Jusaf reminded himself that his phone was “burning hot” with calls for him to terminate the deal after a “really difficult interview”, in which H -Hervey failed to adhere to the “collective responsibility of the Scottish government” on Cass Review in sexual gender identity services.
He said that the people who were “absolute supporters of the Boute House Agreement in the Past” have called on the D -Usaf to terminate the deal at this point, adding similar calls coming from those he would describe as moderate and reasonable “, As some even have that they even have such calls are” architects of the Boute House Agreement. “
Adding that “all intelligence” pointed out that the deal would be “thrown out of the Greens”, Jusaf said that it was then left with the decision to make.
Looking back to the decision whether to “take the initiative and to end the Boute House Agreement” or “Wait to be thrown out of our junior partner,” the former SNP leader said, “In the end It takes more time for this decision. “
He added: “I made my mind on Tuesday night this week that I would finish the Boute House agreement and did it on Thursday morning.”
But d -n -yusaf, who confirmed that he would not stand on Holyrood in the 2026 parliamentary election, said: “I want to spend more time talking and reaching some almost mutual agreement with Patrick and Lorna, which , which was probably not possible.
“But at least if I had taken some more time and I had more conversations, it could soften the blow to some extent.”
However, he added: “In the end, this may not have changed the result.”
Meanwhile, Da Slater described the end of the agreement as “quite suddenly”, saying to the brain trust, “I think even two days earlier he said that the agreement was worth its weight in gold.”
Adding that she is “very sad that is done,” the green MSP said about G -N -Usaf: “I still think there was a little miscalculation there because he was then threatened with no confidence vote S He had just collapsed an agreement of trust and delivery. “