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Just over a year after coming into office, despite his infamous racist tirade against 'white' Scotland…

Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has announced his resignation after his decision to scrap the SNP’s coalition deal with the Scottish Greens caused his leadership to unravel.

In an emotional address, Yousef said:

His decision comes two days after expressly denying that he would resign.

Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary, said Humza Yousaf made the right decision to resign as Scotland’s First Minister. The Tory Cabinet minister said:

But, amid the political division in his coalition, as The Telegraph‘s Gordon Rayner says “Humza Yousaf’s hate crime and trans laws will be his divisive legacy“.

As we have detailed again and again (here, here, and here), his hate-crime law was an utter disaster – that everyone saw coming – and before his resignation, just 29 per cent of Scottish National Party voters believe Yousaf is doing a good job, while 36 per cent think he has been poor in office.

Consequently, Yousaf’s popularity among his own voters is now minus seven, down from plus 14 in January, a massive drop.

As we have highlighted, under the new ‘hate crime’ legislation, anyone deemed to have been verbally ‘abusive’, in person or online, to a transgender person, including “insulting” them could be hit with a prison sentence of up to seven years.

As a reminder, Police received 8000 ‘hate crime’ complaints in just the first week of the law coming into play, equating to more than the annual total of all hate crime reports for all previous years.

The number is on course to out number the total of all other offences combined.

Calum Steele, the former general secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, declared that officers “are genuinely embarrassed,” adding that “They feel that the service and by extension [they] as individual police officers will catch some of the public brunt.”

We know someone who will be pleased that the far left authoritarian is gone…

Humza Yousaf said he will remain as First Minister of Scotland until his successor as SNP leader has been elected.