Scotland’s first minister resigns after failing to muster enough votes to survive a no confidence vote this week

• Humza Yousaf steps down as Scotland’s first minister
• Who is in the running to replace Humza Yousaf as SNP leader?

Humza Yousaf is holding a press conference at noon, Sky News and the BBC are reporting.

Mandy Rhodes, editor of the Holyrood magazine, says she was due to interview Humza Yousaf this afternoon, but he’s cancelled.

SNP leader, who was facing two confidence votes, announces resignation after one year in post

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Humza Yousaf has announced he is stepping down as first minister and Scottish National party leader, little more than a year since he was elected.

Yousaf told a press conference at Bute House, his official residence, on Monday he would remain in post until his successor was elected to ensure a “smooth and orderly transition”.

As the Scottish National party leader announces his resignation, we look at likely successors

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Any contest to replace Humza Yousaf will present the Scottish National party with a significant problem: it has very few contenders with the experience and profile voters would expect to lead the Scottish government.

Mel Stride says therapy or respite could be offered instead of Pip payments to those with ‘milder’ mental health issues

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People with depression or anxiety could lose access to sickness benefits, the work and pensions secretary has said, as part of major welfare changes that have been described as a “full-on assault on disabled people”.

On Monday morning, Mel Stride announced the plans to overhaul the way disability benefits work and was due to address the Commons on the issue later in the day.

Teenage boys believed to be among most vulnerable to gangs using real and fake images to blackmail victims

• ‘It can happen to any child’: parents of sextortion victim fight for justice

Teachers in the UK are being asked to help spot signs their pupils are becoming victims of sextortion, with teenage boys thought to be among the most vulnerable groups.

The National Crime Agency has issued fresh guidance, saying criminal gangs – often based abroad – are using both real and fake images to blackmail their victims; sometimes going from initial contact to extortion within an hour.

Hamas delegation expected in Cairo to respond to Israel’s latest truce and hostage release proposal

• Middle East crisis – live updates

At least 22 people have been killed in airstrikes on Rafah, as Hamas and Israel face pressure to engage in what are seen as last-chance ceasefire talks before a threatened Israeli ground invasion into the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip.

Strikes that hit three houses in the city next to the Egyptian border on Monday injured many more people, while in Gaza City, the bombing of two buildings killed another four people and wounded several more, medics said.

The creator of the highly successful crime series, set in Tudor England, was a private person who ‘preferred to be known through his novels’

CJ Sansom, the bestselling author of Dissolution, Winter in Madrid and Dominion has died aged 71, having been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare and incurable cancer that affects bone marrow, in 2012.

His publisher confirmed the news, noting that Sansom died on 27 April, just days before Shardlake, the TV adaptation of Dissolution starring Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean, is released on Disney+ on 1 May.

Reichsbürger movement led by antisemitic pseudo-aristocrat driven by hatred for democracy, says minister

Nine people have gone on trial amid tight security in the southern German city of Stuttgart in one of three cases linked to an alleged far-right plot to overthrow the state led by a pseudo-aristocrat businessman.

The men are charged with high treason, attempted murder, and membership of a terrorist organisation in relation to the alleged coup, which was foiled in nationwide raids in 2022. They are identified as belonging to the “military wing” behind the group’s ringleader, the 72-year-old self-styled aristocrat Heinrich XIII, Prince Reuss.

Sánchez calls for end to mud-slinging after spending five days reflecting on his future over ‘harassment’ by enemies

Pedro Sánchez has decided to continue as Spain’s prime minister after spending five days reflecting on his future because of what he described as a “harassment and bullying operation” being waged against him and his wife by his political and media enemies.

The socialist prime minister shocked Spain last Wednesday when he shared a personal letter explaining that he was withdrawing from his public duties for a few days to weigh up whether or not he wanted to remain in office.

• Saif Alrubie in court over message sent to Marina Granovskaia
• Case related to payment he said he was owed for role in transfer

A top football agent has been acquitted of sending an intimidating email message to former Chelsea director of football Marina Granovskaia – the so-called “right hand” of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich.

The agent, Saif Alrubie, 45, was cleared by a jury of seven men and five women on Monday at Southwark crown court. They unanimously found he was not guilty of sending an “electronic communication with intent to cause distress or anxiety”, after deliberating for more than four hours.