After serving for 13 months, the first Muslim prime minister of Scotland steps down

LONDON: Humza Yousaf, the first minister of Britain, Pakistan, and Scotland, was overcome with emotion on Monday as he announced his resignation in anticipation of two no-confidence votes this week, one against him and the other against his government.

The resolutions were presented by the Conservatives and Labour Party after Yousaf’s (39) sudden termination of his party’s power-sharing deal with the Greens last Thursday. The issue stemmed from climate promises, and as a result, the SNP found itself in a minority administration.

“I could never have dreamt that one day I would have the privilege of leading my country,” Yousaf said in his resignation address. When I was younger, there were very few people who looked like me in positions of political power, much less heading whole administrations. I would argue that the data contradicts those who argue that multiculturalism has failed in the UK. Thirteen months ago, he made history by becoming the first person of color and Muslim to occupy the position.
His mother is of Kenyan, Pakistani, and Punjabi ancestry, while his father immigrated to the UK from the Punjab district of Pakistan.

He almost started crying as he described the toll politics had taken on his family.
The Scottish Labour leader of Pakistani descent, Anas Sarwar, said that Labour’s vote of no confidence in the SNP administration remains valid and demanded an election.
The SNP’s support fell under Yousaf’s presidency. Most recently, Yousaf came under fire for a hate crime act that was put into effect this month. Critics criticized the act as a restriction on free speech, and as a result, many complaints about Yousaf were made to the police regarding a speech he gave in which he criticized Scotland for hiring “white people” for senior positions.
Elections will be triggered if the Scottish Parliament fails to propose a substitute within the allotted 28 days.
One of the names being proposed is SNP MSP Kate Forbes, who was nurtured by Christian missionaries in India. At the age of ten, the former finance secretary was removed from her Glasgow primary school and sent to Ludhiana, Punjab, where her father worked as a mission hospital financial manager and taught Bible. She has spoken about the cultural shock she went through there, when she had to share a classroom with sixty Indian kids and was smacked about with a ruler for earning bad marks.
Her socially conservative beliefs have caused her to encounter considerable hostility from other SNP members. She belongs to the Free Church of Scotland.