Tag: Humza Yousaf

• Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 04:53 UTC

  Scotland's political system in the process of nominating a new First Minister

  

  Potential successors to outgoing Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf who announced his resignation on Monday, after a let down from the Greens, and fearing two no confidence votes, have been meeting to consider bids for the leadership of SNP. They are John Swinney and Kate Forbes who have yet to confirm their aspirations.

• Thursday, March 21st 2024 - 15:08 UTC

  It sort of happened, Non-white Britain

  

  By Gwynne Dyer - Nobody planned it, hardly anybody realized it was happening, and suddenly there it was: done. In the space of less than two years, the entire senior leadership of Great Britain has become non-white.

• Tuesday, October 10th 2023 - 10:46 UTC

  Scotland's First Minister parents in law “trapped” in Gaza during a family visit

  

  Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf says his parents-in-law are “trapped” in Gaza, as he unequivocally condemned the attacks by Hamas in Israel. Yousaf said his wife's parents, who live in Dundee, travelled to Gaza to see her father's sick mother.

• Tuesday, March 28th 2023 - 11:14 UTC

  Yousaf, a Muslim of Pakistan origin, Scotland's leader and next First Minister

  

  Humza Yousaf, identified as the “continuity candidate” has been elected to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's National Party, SNP leader and Scotland's next first minister. He was widely seen as being the preferred candidate of the SNP establishment, including outgoing Ms Sturgeon herself.

• Thursday, March 16th 2023 - 07:22 UTC

  Next SNP leadership predicts an independent Scotland in five years time

  

  All three Scottish National Party leadership candidates have predicted that Scotland can be an independent country within five years if they win the contest. Ash Regan, Humza Yousaf, and Kate Forbes were speaking as they faced each other in a BBC Scotland TV debate.