Everybody likes Humza Yousaf. Or at least that is what they all say before they stick the knife in to Scotland’s beleaguered first minister.
There is a script, an accepted formula, for attacking the SNP leader. “He is a nice guy,” many critics inside and outside his party will say before adding: “but …”
At least in public, the 39-year-old’s default setting is mild-mannered, personable, sometimes even ebullient. The privately educated Glaswegian has an easygoing confidence, a disarming doe-eyed charm.
These qualities, even former supporters inside the SNP acknowledge, are no longer enough.
Yet even now, as his premiership looks close to unravelling, pundits and politicians alike feel the need to preface their remarks with faint praise for his character.
“Fundamentally Humza’s problem is
