{"id":15076,"date":"2023-03-30T13:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=15076"},"modified":"2023-03-30T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:02:37","slug":"new-scottish-leader-humza-yousaf-appoints-women-dominated-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/new-scottish-leader-humza-yousaf-appoints-women-dominated-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"New Scottish leader Humza Yousaf appoints women-dominated cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Scottish leader Humza Yousaf appoints women-dominated cabinet. Newly appointed Pakistani-origin leader of Scotland, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumzaYousaf\">Humza Yousaf<\/a> has appointed his cabinet and ministerial team and pledged to deliver a radical, ambitious and radical progressive policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Yousaf was sworn in as Scotland&#8217;s first minister on Wednesday, becoming the first Muslim leader of a government in western Europe after winning the race of Scottish leadership on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, the 37-year-old announced appointing the members of his cabinet and ministers. He said that it was the first time that the Scottish Cabinet had more women than men.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/pakistani-origin-humza-yousaf-wins-scottish-leadership-race.html\">Pakistani origin Humza Yousaf wins Scottish leadership race<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He also promised to serve the interests of the people of his country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Delighted to appoint my Cabinet and Ministerial team, we will work to deliver a radical, ambitious and progressive policy agenda for the people of Scotland. First time, Cabinet has more women than men. We promise to work in the interests of all of Scotland,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Yousaf was spending the rest of Wednesday rounding out his cabinet after being administered the oath by Colin Sutherland, the lord president of Scotland&#8217;s highest court, the Court of Session.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delighted to appoint my Cabinet &amp; Ministerial team, we will work to deliver a radical, ambitious &amp; progressive policy agenda for the people of Scotland. <\/p>\n<p>First time Cabinet has more women than men.<\/p>\n<p>We promise to work in the interests of all of Scotland.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6VzGuuBuyn\">https:\/\/t.co\/6VzGuuBuyn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hMnEMFwq20\">pic.twitter.com\/hMnEMFwq20<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumzaYousaf\/status\/1641177959611482114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 29, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The new first minister vowed to \u201cwell and truly serve His Majesty King Charles III&#8221;, despite his stated support for abolishing the monarchy in favour of an elected head of state for Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak congratulated Yousaf in a phone call shortly after the youngest Scottish National Party (SNP) leader was confirmed as the first minister by the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Yousaf said the call had been \u201cconstructive\u201d \u2014 but that he had stressed to Sunak that \u201cthe democratic wishes of Scotland&#8217;s people and parliament\u201d should be respected by London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Scottish leader Humza Yousaf appoints women-dominated cabinet. Newly appointed Pakistani-origin leader of Scotland, Humza Yousaf has appointed his cabinet and ministerial team and pledged to deliver a radical, ambitious and radical progressive policy agenda. Yousaf was sworn in as Scotland&#8217;s first minister on Wednesday, becoming the first Muslim leader of a government in western [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[8605,508,8606],"class_list":["post-15076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-humza-yousaf","tag-scotland","tag-scottish-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}