At last, a target Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf should have no trouble meeting. Waiting lists? The attainment gap? Dualling the A9? Of course not.
Humza Yousaf says his forthcoming government reset can be expected to ‘p**s people off’. When it comes to annoying people the First Minister is a veritable virtuoso. He has certainly irritated many in the SNP with his insistence on perpetuating the controversial alliance with the Scottish Green party.
Mr Yousaf clearly knows what side he’s on; unfortunately, Scottish voters are increasingly on the other side
Yousaf is quite serious though. Yesterday he told the Holyrood Sources podcast that, as a ‘conviction’ politician, it is his righteous duty to curry unfavour with many voters, first of all by increasing their taxes in the autumn budget. A new intermediate tax band on higher earners is forecast. Scotland is already paying the highest taxes of any region in the UK on most measures.
The First Minister says that ‘most politicians end up being people pleasers’.
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