Humza Yousaf talks to Nicola Cutcher

A truly remarkable account from Scotland’s former First Minister of how to lead a country when international events have thrown your own family into crisis. When Humza Yousaf got a call from Gaza on the morning of 7th October 2023, he feared the worst. His wife’s parents had travelled there from their home in Dundee to visit a sick relative. Now, after the Hamas terrorist attack, they were caught in Israel’s fierce response.

Yousaf reveals his desperate attempts to get his in-laws out of Gaza and safely back home. While supporting his wife and children as they waited for news, Yousaf also had to lead the whole of Scotland – as well as reassure the nation’s traumatised Jewish community. An honest and timely conversation about how to cope when the personal and the political become inextricably linked.He talks to journalist, Nicola Cutcher, about how to cope when the personal and the political become inextricably linked.