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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]
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 ...
The First Minister refused to blame the election defeat on his predecessor Humza Yousaf, who was pushed out of office after ending the coalition with the Scottish Greens.
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 ...
The make-up of the Scottish Parliament means the First Minister faces a tough fight for his political future.
Humza Yousaf said he doubts his leadership could have survived the last general election, as he reflected on his fateful decision to end the SNP’s powersharing deal with the Scottish Greens.
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.
The move led to the ex-first minister's resignation earlier this year as he faced motions of no confidence.