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Humza Yousaf was born on 7 April 1985 in Rutherglen Maternity Hospital in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] He is son of first-generation Pakistani Punjabi Muslim Rajput immigrants: [ 9 ] his father Mian Muzaffar Yousaf Arain was born in Mian Channu , Punjab , Pakistan, and emigrated from the city with his family in the 1960s ...
The move led to the ex-first minister's resignation earlier this year as he faced motions of no confidence.
Lee Dodds, from the Scottish Covid Bereaved group, said it was hard to listen to the evidence given on Thursday.
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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 ...
Humza Yousaf formed the Second Yousaf government on 25 April 2024 following his dissolution of the Scottish National Party's power sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens. [1] This resulted in a government crisis , where Yousaf faced the threat of a vote of no confidence now that the SNP was leading a minority government.
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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 .