Humza Yousaf’s regime is not exactly a government of all the talents. There’s Patrick Harvie, the Zero Carbons minister, whose list of achievements is shorter than his fuse. There’s Shona Robison, resurrected five years after taking Scotland to the top of the European health league for, er, drug deaths. And then there’s the First Minister himself, the reverse Macavity who finds himself at the centre of every scandal. But amid this galaxy of mediocrity, one star shines brighter than the rest: Lorna Slater, the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity.

Slater has managed to distinguish herself in her 21 months in office through her special blend of personal misjudgements and policy errors. Within weeks of taking office the Green co-leader was branded a ‘Hollywood diva’ after demanding she didn’t want to work every day at COP26, with officials being told to arrange no more than ‘two things in a day’ during the Glasgow summit.

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