Humza Yousaf is not a popular man. He might have won the final vote to be the new First Minister of Scotland, but only 50,000 people actually voted in the election, and of those, only 24,000 voted for him as their favourite candidate that's less than one-third of the Scottish National Party's 72,000 members. Not a great start.
And for all the relentless hyping up of Nicola Sturgeon's long reign as Scotland's first minister, the government that Yousaf inherits is not very popular either. The latest Scottish Political Pulse survey conducted by pollster Ipsos shows that 50% of Scots think that "generally speaking things in Scotland are headed in the wrong direction." Only 25% think it is headed in the right direction, the rest don't know. That number rises slightly for SNP voters-to 37%-but even that is down from 44% earlier in the year.
The National Health Service (NHS) is a particular bugbear. Not a good look for Yousaf, who is currently in charge of health. On improving living standards, the numbers are equally awful (21% say good job, 45% say bad job), as are those for education and the economy. Sturgeon won't be thrilled to be leaving these numbers behind-hers is a genuinely lousy legacyand Yousaf won't be thrilled to be starting out with such a whopping headwind.
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