Humza Yousaf is the First Minister of Scotland, the first Muslim to hold the position. He replaced Nicola Sturgeon, who left behind a divided party mired in a scandal of alleged corruption.

The Scottish politician, of Pakistani origin and whose father-in-law is Palestinian, later saw how his wife's parents were trapped for several days under the bombs in Gaza, where they had gone to visit relatives. He considers that the British Conservative Party "only seeks to cause division with racism and Islamophobia"