Humza Yousaf has announced his resignation as First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party. His time was short, but he’s overseen a dramatic change in the party he’ll now cease to lead: a discipline once revered by opponents has given way to a party in open dissent.
As he prepares to leave the political stage what can Scotland remember him for?
- Yousaf, who became an MSP in 2011, rose quickly to the top job in Scottish politics. He first served as a minister under Alex Salmond within a year of his election. He was subsequently transport minister in 2017 when Nicola Sturgeon launched the Glen Sannox ferry onto the Clyde with no interior and painted on windows. But Yousaf will be out of office before the Sannox completes her sea trials making him Scotland’s second shortest First Minister in terms of time in office. Salmond has already described him as ‘Humza the Brief’.
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