The 37-year-old will be the youngest ever First Minister and the first person from an ethnic minority background to hold the role
Humza Yousaf will replace Nicola Sturgeon as SNP leader after beating Ash Regan and Kate Forbes in the contest.
Yousaf went to the Glasgow private school Hutcheson’s Grammar. He said that his Modern Studies classes at the school were what made him want to get involved in politics. He became a parliamentary assistant to then First Minister Salmond in October 2009. He held the position for nine months, before working as a communications officer at SNP headquarters.MSP and junior minister Yousaf was elected as an MSP on the Glasgow list in 2011. He took his oath to the Queen in English and Urdu. Aged just 26, he was the youngest member elected to the Scottish Parliament at the time.
In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election Yousaf won the Glasgow Pollok seat from former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont with a majority of 6,482 votes.He came under fire in his first year in the role because of mass delays and cancellations on Scotland’s railways. He had to publicly apologise for ScotRail failures and faced calls to resign.Cabinet Secretary Despite problems in his previous role, Yousaf was promoted to Cabinet Secretary for Justice in 2018.
But Yousaf has pointed out that he managed to prevent strikes in NHS Scotland, unlike in England, by thrashing out a deal with union leaders.He married psychotherapist Nadia El-Nakla in 2019. He has one child and one stepchild.
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