Kate Forbes 'wants to work with' the Scottish Greens if chosen as First Minister

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Kate Forbes has said she hopes to negotiate with the Greens, despite suggestions the party could exit its powersharing agreement with the Scottish Government.The SNP leadership candidate said she is hopeful of continuing to work with the party as part of the Bute House Agreement if she is selected to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as first minister.But Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said the co-operation agreement with the SNP “would come to an end” if the new leader vetoed parts of the deal.The main disagreement is over controversial gender reforms which would make it easier to self-ID as transgender.Forbes was on maternity leave at the time of the Holyrood vote on the reforms but has since said she would not have supported the legislation.Her position on the Section 35 order placed on the legislation by the UK Government – which blocks the Bill from gaining royal assent – is to have a “grown-up conversation” with Westminster ministers on how to reform the legislation.SNP leadership rival Humza Yousaf has said he would challenge the decision in court, while Ash Regan has vowed to scrap the reforms.Harvie told BBC Radio Scotland’s Good Morning Scotland programme his party would not be in Government with any leader who would “rip out” parts of the deal.During a visit to the Zakariyya Masjid mosque in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, on Friday afternoon, Forbes said: “I want to work with Patrick Harvie and the Green Party.“I have negotiated probably more than any other Cabinet Secretary with the Greens in the past, and I want to work with other parties in Holyrood.“I would certainly have a conversation with him very early doors.”On whether compromise over the gender reforms is possible, she said: “I would hope that as a member of