we ll be looking at the story of the man who s made it to the top of scottish politics, and we ll be asking about the major challenges he now faces. and our other main stories also on the programme tonight: prince harry arrives unexpectedly at the high court in london in a privacy case against the daily mail and mail on sunday. mass protests and widespread strikes across israel may force the government to postpone its controversial plans to appoint judges. and people are urged to stay out of the water in poole in dorset and coming up, questions are taught hotspur after they part ways with antonio, who is next for the premier league stance? good evening from edinburgh. we re at the scottish parliament on the day a new leader was elected by the scottish national party. he s humza yousaf, he s 37 years old, and he s now set to become first minister of scotland and to be one of the most powerful and prominent politicians in the united kingdom. the leadership contest was triggered
would be rather daunting as first minister. we ll be looking at those challenges, and we ll be looking at mr yousaf s family story, but first our scotland editor, james cook, reports on the result. with a high five for his daughter, humza yousaf hints at what is about to happen. he sjust been told humza yousaf hints at what is about to happen. he s just been told the result, and it shows. kate to happen. he sjust been told the result, and it shows. result, and it shows. kate forbes, 23,890. result, and it shows. kate forbes, 23.890. this result, and it shows. kate forbes, 23,890. this represents result, and it shows. kate forbes, 23,890. this represents 47.994. i result, and it shows. kate forbes, 23,890. this represents 47.996 of| result, and it shows. kate forbes, - 23,890. this represents 47.996 of the 23,890. this represents 47.9% of the final boat 23,890. this represents 47.9% of the final boat. humza yousaf, 26,032. this represents 52.1% of the final vote this represents
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gap between pupils from wealthy backgrounds and those who are disadvantaged. in a moment, we ll assess those challenges with our scotland editor, james cook, but first let s talk to our political editor, chris mason, at westminster. what does this result mean for uk politics? huw, it gives you every sense of the cloud to politically of the scottish national party that the result was watched with real intrigue here. you only have to look at the actions of labour leader keir starmer since they announced the resignation of nicola sturgeon last month to give you a sense of why this all matters, certainly as far as they see it. keir starmer has been to scotland four times in almost as many weeks. he hopes that this could be an inflection point on the long haul, from his perspective, he hopes in the direction of downing street. but
our political editor. that is all from holyrood, we will have more at ten o clock tonight, we will be chatting to james and chris, and there is more detailed analysis online and on the bbc news app, all the analysis that you need there. but in the meantime, fiona, it is back to you. in the last few minutes, the teaching union the neu has announced that they will recommend their members reject the latest pay offer from the government. 0ur education editor, branwenjeffreys, is here. what s the union saying, and what does this mean for children and parents? they are opening a ballot this evening with clear advice to their members that between now and sunday they should reject the latest offer from the government which comes after six intensive days of talks. that would involve teachers in england being offered £1000 one off cash payment on top of this year s 5%, and next year the pay offer would be around 4.3% for most teachers, those are experienced