# Scotland's anti-white First Minister Humza Yousaf resigns ahead of no-confidence vote

By Jessica Barshis · Published 2024-04-29 · News & Analysis › World · https://humanevents.com/news/scotlands-anti-white-first-minister-humza-yousaf-resigns-ahead-of-no-confidence-vote

> "I've concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm."

[Scotland](https://humanevents.com/2024/04/18/scottish-primary-schools-collaborate-with-lgbt-charity-to-push-gender-identity-groups-on-children)'s leader, First Minster Humza Yousaf, resigned on Monday while facing two no-confidence votes set to take place later in the week.

He [held office](https://humanevents.com/2024/04/02/protestors-rally-outside-scottish-parliament-against-new-hate-crime-law-that-jeopardizes-free-speech) for merely 1 year and 1 month, the second shortest first minister tenure the country has seen since the office was established in 1999, [BBC News reports](https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-scotland-68918348?src_origin=BBCS_BBC).

Yousaf was infamously known for a 2020 speech just before he was elected during which he said "99 percent of the meetings I go to, I'm the only non-white person in the room."

"But why are we surprised when the most senior positions in [Scotland](https://humanevents.com/2024/04/02/breaking-scottish-police-say-jk-rowlings-posts-against-new-hate-crime-law-are-not-criminal) are filled almost exclusively by those who are white?" he continued, followed by him listing a slew of office positions filled by a white person.

Yousaf, the first Muslin head of government in modern Western Europe headed the left-wing Scottish National Party (SNP) which broke its power-sharing agreement with the Green Party over climate change policy disagreements, per [Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/scotlands-yousaf-set-resign-first-minister-uk-media-say-2024-04-29/).

In his resignation speech Monday, he said "I've concluded that repairing our relationship across the political divide can only be done with someone else at the helm."

[Watch on Rumble](https://rumble.com/embed/v4prmnx/?pub=2n05b)

He added that he had "underestimated the level of hurt" he caused the Greens but was "not willing to trade my values and principles" to stay in power.