THE SCOTTISH Greens have threatened to collapse their Scottish Government coalition with the SNP unless Nicola Sturgeon’s successor sticks with her controversial self-ID gender reforms.

Patrick Harvie, their co-leader, warned that their power-sharing deal “would come to an end” if the new First Minister “vetoed” any part of it.

With two of the three SNP leadership candidates opposed to the self-ID gender laws, he said it was an “absolute priority” for his party to go to court to try and overturn a UK Government veto of them.

Mr Harvie admitted to being “unsure” whether his party would still be in government at the end of next week, following the announcement of the new SNP leader on Monday.

The so-called Bute House Agreement commits both parties to reform the Gender Recognition Act to simplify the process by which trans people can change their gender.

But Humza Yousaf, the Health Secretary, is the only one of the three SNP leadership candidates to back Ms Sturgeon’s controversial legislation allowing people to self-identify their legal gender.

Kate Forbes, the Finance Secretary, has said she would have voted against the Bill if she had not been on maternity leave and Ash Regan resigned as Community Safety Minister so she could oppose it.

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