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The Scottish National Party (SNP) has terminated its power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens, reportedly following tensions over climate change and gender identity issues. The Bute House Agreement, signed in 2021, brought the Greens into government for the first time in the UK. However, the Greens’ anger over the government’s reversal on a climate change target and decision to pause puberty blockers for children led them to consider a vote on the deal’s future. Before that could occur, the SNP ended the agreement, leaving it to operate as a minority administration at Holyrood.

The powersharing agreement between the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Scottish Greens has been terminated, forcing the SNP to govern as a minority administration. The deal, signed in 2021, had brought the Greens into power for the first time in the UK, giving the SNP a majority in the Scottish Parliament. However, tensions between the two parties escalated over the Scottish Government’s abandoning of a climate change target and the pausing of puberty blockers for young patients at Scotland’s gender services clinic.