'Karma is a b***h!' JK Rowling blasts Humza Yousaf as First Minister faces confidence threat

Rowling, 58, took to social media to share her thoughts about Alba MSP Ash Regan having the final say in Yousaf’s future.

She said: “The idea that Humza Yousaf's political fate may now lie in the hands of Ash Regan, the woman who left the SNP in disgust at its plans for gender self-ID, reminds me ‘They say Karma’s a b***h but I hear she’s a terf.”

Regan, who wrote to Yousaf this morning, is requesting the First Minister takes a more hardline stance on Scottish independene and gender to receive her support.

The pair were at loggerheads shortly after going up for the SNP leadership race last year.

Yousaf called Regan "no great loss" after she quit the SNP.

The Scottish First Minister is facing a no confidence vote after Holyrood’s Tory leader Douglas Ross pushed ahead with the move yesterday.

Ross said: “I can confirm today that on behalf of the Scottish Conservatives I am lodging a vote of no confidence in Humza Yousaf.

"He is a failed First Minister. He has focused on the wrong priorities for Scotland.

“He has governed in the SNP’s interest and not in Scotland’s interest. He is unfit for office. Shouldn’t this be the end of the road for this weak First Minister?”

Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats have agreed to back the motion.

Patrick Harvie later confirmed alongside Slater that Green Party MSPs will oppose Yousaf staying on as First Minister.

The current situation leaves 63 SNP MSPs likely to support Yousaf, with 64 opposition MSPs poised to vote against.

Voting against Yousaf in next week's no confidence motion would prove enough for opposition MSPs to defeat the Glasgow Pollok MSP.

However, Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone, formerly a Green MSP, would be required to cast the deciding vote if Regan lent her support to Yousaf.