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Humza Haroon Yousaf was born on 7 April 1985 in Rutherglen Maternity Hospital in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He is son of first-generation Pakistani Punjabi Muslim immigrants: his father Mian Muzaffar Yousaf Arain was born in Mian Channu , Punjab , Pakistan, and emigrated from the city with his family in the 1960s ...
In August 2023, Yousaf launched the Reading Schools project, a replacement initiative of the First Minister's Reading Challenge which was established under Yousaf's predecessor Nicola Sturgeon. 371 schools across Scotland have become accredited as "reading schools", with the hope of an additional 511 schools looking to have joined the project ...
In April 2024, Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), faced a confidence challenge following his termination of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, which meant that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, co-leaders of the Greens and their only government ministers, were removed from government. [2]
The Scottish health secretary stood in the tense five-week leadership contest and has now beaten main rival Kate Forbes to replace Nicola Sturgeon
In 2019, El-Nakla married Humza Yousaf, the future first minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP. [15] She later gave birth to her second daughter, first of Yousaf's, and the family lived in Broughty Ferry, a suburb a few miles east of the city of Dundee. [16] In March 2024, the couple announced that they were expecting another child. [17]
Mr Yousaf will become the youngest ever first minister, and the first ever person from a minority ethnic background to hold the top job. Humza Yousaf says he is ‘luckiest man in the world ...
Following Nicola Sturgeon's resignation as leader of the SNP and as first minister, Humza Yousaf won the 2023 SNP leadership election, defeating Kate Forbes with 52% to her 48% in the final stage. Yousaf was appointed first minister on 29 March 2023, becoming the youngest person, the first Scottish Asian, and the first Muslim to serve in office.
Senior Tory MSP Stephen Kerr called for the probe on Monday after reports emerged claiming Humza Yousaf lobbied the UK Government to help Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla – his wife’s parents ...