Humza Yousaf rose from a parliamentary assistant to a Glasgow MSP to become First Minister.

He took a post as parliamentary assistant to Bashir Ahmed in 2007, at the age of 21, leaving his student part-time job in a Glasgow call centre.

By the time he was 37, he was sworn in as Scotland’s sixth first minister and the first from an Asian background.

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Yousaf was elected as MSP for Glasgow region on the SNP party list in 2011.

In 2016 he won the constituency seat of Glasgow Pollok, defeating Johann Lamont of Labour, as the SNP took all eight Glasgow seats.

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His ministerial career started under Alex Salmond’s government when he was appointed minister for external affairs and international development in June 2012.

He rose through the ministerial ranks and in May 2016, under Nicola Sturgeon, he was appointed transport minister, following the SNP winning the election that year.

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Two years later in 2018, he was promoted to the Cabinet in a reshuffle when he was appointed as Justice Secretary, one of the top jobs.

He was re-elected as MSP for Pollok in 2021 and was made Health Secretary and by now he was being tipped as a potential successor to Sturgeon.

When Sturgeon announced she was to resign he declared his candidacy for the leadership.

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After an at times bitter and divisive leadership campaign he defeated Kate Forbes and Ash Regan to become SNP leader on March 27, 2023.

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Yousaf became Scotland’s First Minister two days later on March 29, 2023.

Last week he ended the Bute House Agreement with the Scottish Greens leaving him leading a minority Government.

After days of criticism, fury from the Greens and the two main opposition parties tabling no-confidence motions, after little more than a year in office he announces his resignation as First Minister.