March 2023

After a frequently brutal leadership contest, the membership of the Scottish National Party delivered their verdict, albeit narrowly, and elected Humza Yousaf as their new leader. Yousaf becomes the sixth First Minister of Scotland and the third of the SNP’s near 16-year reign at the top of Scottish politics.

It is worth pausing a moment to reflect on quite why the election of a new First Minister of Scotland matters so much, and why the UK-wide media has given so much airtime and so many column inches to this contest.

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