Your Party Scottish leadership resigns over autonomy row

The interim leadership of Your Party's Scottish branch resigned en masse on April 13, accusing the party's UK leadership of denying autonomy and withholding essential resources ahead of the Holyrood elections scheduled for May 7. The 12 members of the Interim Scottish Executive Committee, along with Niall Christie, the sole Scottish representative on the party's Central Executive Committee, stepped down, citing repeated instances of disrespect toward Scottish members.

The resignations followed a meeting of nearly 200 Your Party Scotland members on April 12, where frustrations over the party's direction boiled over. In a joint statement, the outgoing committee described being "completely blocked" in efforts to fulfill a mandate from Scottish members, including attempts to field candidates in the upcoming elections. They alleged that the UK leadership had sidelined Scotland by refusing funding, membership mailing lists, and engagement on key proposals. "As a result of this consistent denial of autonomy for Scotland, and a willingness by the UK leadership to sideline an entire nation," the statement read, the group had "taken the collective decision to resign our positions."