The First Minister has cancelled a major speech he was due to give at lunchtime today in Glasgow.
Humza Yousaf was due to deliver an address at Strathclyde University in Glasgow at 12.30pm and then take questions from the audience and then speak to the media.
He was expected to talk on the subject of the labour market in an independent Scotland.
It would have been the second in a series of speeches outlining the Scottish Government’s ambition for a more productive economy to achieve higher living standards in an independent Scotland.
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Professor Tricia Findlay, Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research at Strathclyde University and Co-chair of the Fair Work Convention, was due to introduce the First Minister.
However, according to reports this morning, broadcasters have been told the event has been cancelled.
Reports overnight and this morning have said that Mr Yousaf is considering his position as he faces being ousted as First Minister.
Media have been told Mr Yousaf will not resign on Friday.
He is to attend an event in a housing development in Dundee this afternoon to make an announcement on affordable homes.
Senior members of the SNP have said the First Minister is considering his position after a chaotic day in Scottish politics on Thursday.
Mr Yousaf could resign before he faces a vote of no confidence that he lacks the SNP majority to survive next week.
On Thursday afternoon, the Scottish Greens said they would support the no-confidence motion and vote to oust Yousaf.
If every Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MSP joins the Greens in voting against Mr Yousaf it would give them 64 votes to the SNP's 63.
The result would then depend on which way Alba Party MSP Ash Regan decided to vote. If the vote is tied at 64, the Presiding Officer Alison Johnstone would support the side which kept the existing situation under parliamentary convention. In this case she would support the First Minister.
Ms Regan, who ran for the leadership of the SNP against Mr Yousaf last year, later left the party over its policies on gender recognition reforms and independence strategy.
She has written to the First Minister with a series of demands in return for her support at the vote, expected next Wednesday.
The Scottish Conservatives lodged the motion of no confidence after Mr Yousaf announced on Thursday morning he had ended the Bute House Agreement, which had brought the Scottish Greens into power and gave his government a majority in Holyrood.
At a press conference in Bute House on Thursday morning he said the termination of the pact represented "a new beginning" for his govermment.
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