Humza Yousaf, the first minister of Scotland, has announced that she will step down from the Scottish political front in the next elections, because she criticized Elon Musk’s interference in the US election and his potential role in the next UK elections.
39 Yousaf, who last year became the first Asian and the first Muslim to lead a European leadership, has been sitting as a backbencher ever since. reporting to the prime minister in April in a crisis with the former allies of the Scots Greens.
In a letter to his party’s headquarters in Glasgow Pollok, Yousaf said he had been an MSP for 15 years when the St Mary’s election takes place in May 2026, and hoped his achievements would inspire young people “of all parties” to take up public office. .
His decision to run as an MSP has increased speculation about the future of his predecessor, Nicola Sturgeon, at Holyrood.
Sturgeon confirmed she plans to put the nomination papers on the 2026 election but said she had not decided whether she would stand for re-election. Many spectators hope to leave it rather than stay on the backbens.
In an interview with journalist Mehdi Hasan, Yousaf said that alarm bells should “go up and down” in British politics over the threat posed by Musk’s proposed plans to roll back by itself. UK reform.
Yousaf, who They met with Musk Often on the US billionaire’s social media platform 10, Musk said that “disinformation is being developed” that “certainly, without a doubt, lit the fuse for some of the riots that we saw in Southport in the summer.”
After Donald Trump’s US election campaign, Musk “is seen sitting in on meetings for chief of staff, for secretaries of state and living at Mar-a-Lago.” And if he tries to emulate that authority in the next UK general election, it will, as I say, ring bells all the way down the country.
Yousaf also defended his decision to fall out with the ruling coalition of the Scottish Greens. He left his successor, John Swinney, to decide without negotiation and compromise with the President. To do what I think is the best thing to do in the constitution,” he said.
Hasan also said there is “no doubt in my mind” that the UK Labor government was complicit in the Gaza genocide. “How can they not be?”
“We have Israel, a government that has killed at least 45,000 people,” Yousaf said. “The person who is the government of that government has the ICC to warrant their arrest for crimes and war crimes against humanity. And yet it’s amazing, this government, the UK government, is sending weapons, weapons, parts to the F-35.”