Humza Yousaf becomes first POC leader of Scotland, reshaping UK politics.

Humza Yousaf, whose family trace their ancestry to Pakistan, is expected to become the first non-White head of the Scottish government, following his election as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) on Monday. Yousaf joins British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, and the Republic of Ireland’s Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, whose father is an Indian-born doctor, as politicians of South Asian descent occupying leadership roles in the British, Scottish and Irish parliaments. Yousaf takes over a party with an overriding objective to end Scotland’s three-centuries-long union with England.