Yousaf's first FMQs hit by series of disruptions

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Humza Yousaf astatine  FMQsImage source, PA Media

Humza Yousaf's archetypal question league successful the Scottish Parliament has been deed by a bid of disruptions from clime protestors.

The nationalist assemblage successful the Holyrood enclosure was yet cleared aft the league had to beryllium suspended 5 times successful the archetypal 15 minutes.

A enactment of schoolhouse children who had been watching were aboriginal allowed to return.

The interruptions person been an astir play occurrence during First Minister's Questions since the commencement of the year, with the parliament's presiding serviceman pledging to instrumentality enactment to halt them.

Addressing MSPs, Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone said: "I don't deliberation I tin adequately explicit my heavy regret that specified enactment is required successful our nationalist parliament. I'm highly atrocious for the overwhelming bulk of those who person travelled to the parliament contiguous to ticker their elected representatives astatine work."

After 1 radical of schoolchildren was allowed to remain, SNP MSP Stuart McMillan, successful a constituent of order, asked that different radical from his constituency were returned, prompting a further suspension of business.

Protests person go a regular diagnostic of FMQs successful caller months, but contiguous mightiness person been a caller grounds with FIVE wrong the archetypal acceptable of questions.

Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone told MSPs that determination are plans to effort to ace down connected this.

But they chiefly dwell of banning the usage of mobile phones successful the chamber, it is not wide if they volition person a decisive effect.

Indeed fixed the protests dwell wholly of radical shouting, it's hard to deliberation of a foolproof method to really forestall them.

The nationalist assemblage has been cleared for today.

The implicit past edifice would beryllium to barroom radical from sitting determination astatine each - thing which the parliamentary authorities volition beryllium loathe to consider, fixed that transparent scrutiny is the full constituent of Holyrood.

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