Here’s everything you need to know about Scotland's new leader
THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL Party has a new leader in Humza Yousaf, who has been elected today to replace Nicola Sturgeon as she steps down.
Yousaf studied politics at Glasgow University and began working in politics as an office manager for the SNP’s Bashir Ahmad, the first Member of Scottish Parliament from an Asian and Muslim background. Following Ahmad’s death in 2009, Yousaf went on to work for other MSPs, including Nicola Sturgeon.
He stayed on in a junior ministerial role when Nicola Sturgeon became First Minister in 2014 and was later promoted to the transport portfolio and then justice. While serving as Justice Secretary, he introduced a Hate Crime Bill to legislate for protections for minority groups. He told audiences he would be his “own man” as first minister but added that continuing the election success of Nicola Sturgeon would not be a negative. He also regularly took veiled swipes at his rivals by stressing the need to continue the party’s “progressive agenda”.
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