Scottish Greens warn SNP not to take budget support for granted

Alex Salmond, who died earlier this month aged 69, was first minister at the time while John Swinney was finance secretary.

At Holyrood, the SNP are currently in power, but they are governing as a minority administration.

This means they must rely on the support of other parties to pass legislation.

The Greens were in a power-sharing agreement with the SNP until April, when the then-first minister, Humza Yousaf, kicked the junior party out of government.

Since then, the Scottish government has halted some policies supported by the Greens, including nature restoration funding and a pilot that scrapped peak rail fares.

During his keynote speech, Harvie called for the SNP to reverse their “broken promises”.

He accused the Scottish government of making a “sharp U-turn” on climate policies since the Greens left government.

Harvie called for the re-instatement of the plan to roll out free school meals to all primary children and the reversing the cut to nature restoration fund, among other pledges.