Scottish National Party Taps Pro-Independence Leader

The Guardian reports:

Scottish nationalists picked Humza Yousaf to be the country’s next leader on Monday after a bitterly fought contest that exposed deep divisions in his party over policy and a stalled independence campaign.

The 37-year-old practising Muslim succeeds Nicola Sturgeon as leader of the governing Scottish National Party (SNP) and will take over as head of the semi-autonomous government once he wins an approval vote in the Scottish parliament.

Setting out his goals, Yousaf said he would concentrate on tackling the cost of living crisis and making a renewed push for independence. “The people of Scotland need independence now, more than ever before and we will be the generation that delivers independence,” he said in a speech in Edinburgh,

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Multi-cultural #Scotland. Humza Yousaf, 37, of Pakistani and Kenyan descent, wins race to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s next leader.https://t.co/XtMofpOxiE

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