Humza Haroon Yousaf is a Scottish politician who served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party from March 2023 to May 2024. He served under his predecessor Nicola Stur
Official portrait, 2023
Yousaf signs Nicola Sturgeon's nomination for first minister, 19 November 2014
Yousaf at the COP26 Climate Action for Health event, 2021
Yousaf at Scottish Government press conference on COVID-19 in 2020.
The Scottish National Party is a Scottish nationalist and social democratic political party in Scotland. It holds 57 of the 129 seats in the Scottish Parliament and 8 out of the 57 Scottish seats in t
Humza Yousaf
…for community radio for twelve years and on a project which provided food packages to homeless people and asylum seekers in Glasgow. Yousaf joined the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2005, while studying at Glasgow university. Speeches by then-party leader Alex Salmond and anti-war activist Rose Gentle speaking out against…
Alexander MacEwen, the first leader of the Scottish National Party from 1934 to 1936
The first SNP government led by Alex Salmond as First Minister of Scotland, here seated next to Nicola Sturgeon who served as his deputy, in Bute House
Nicola Sturgeon led the party and served as First Minister for eight years from November 2014 to March 2023.
Sturgeon addresses journalists at Bute House over her plans to hold a referendum in 2023, a proposal that would fail after the Supreme Court ruled the parliament didn't have the power.