Will Yousaf survive, ask papers, as ScotRail’s problems turn political

The deteriorating performance of train operator ScotRail has put Scotland’s transport minister Humza Yousaf in the spotlight and there have been calls for him to resign. Rik Thomas reports

Scottish transport minister Humza Yousaf has been in the headlines this month for all the wrong reasons as politicians and pundits demanded to know what he was going to do about a slump in the performance of 

ScotRail franchise operator Abellio. 

“Transport minister is a poisoned chalice role,” The Scotsman’s political correspondent Scott Macnab wrote on 23 November, noting that some of Yousaf’s predecessors in post had found themselves at the centre of...

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