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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell Scotland editor

Humza Yousaf to stand down and warns over Elon Musk’s UK election threat

Humza Yousaf
Humza Yousaf. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s former first minister, has announced he is to quit frontline politics at the next Scottish elections as he criticised Elon Musk’s interference in the US election and his potential role in the next UK election.

Yousaf, 39, who last year became the first Asian Muslim to lead a European government, has been sitting as a backbencher since resigning as first minister in April over a crisis with his erstwhile partners in the Scottish Greens.

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