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An Introduction to the Yousaf & Qaisar families

The families of Scottish-born Humza Yousaf and Anum Qaisar were immigrant Pakistanis who settled in Glasgow. Both of their fathers were qualified accountants and Qaisar’s father was also a Company and Managing Director of several wholesale and retail clothing concerns. The families have been friends for many years.

Anum Qaisar the Early Years

Anum was raised in Motherwell and studied politics at the University of Stirling. She was an active member of Scottish Labour and became general secretary of Muslim Friends of Labour. She campaigned for a “Yes” vote at the 2014 Scottish independence referendum and joined the SNP later that year.

In 2015 the politically ambitious Anum failed in her bid to be selected as the SNP candidate for Edinburgh Eastern at the 2016 Scottish Parliament election and became a Parliamentary researcher at Westminster for Carol Monaghan MP.

She married Dr Usman Khalid Javed in 2015. Her wedding was attended by Sturgeon, her husband Murrell, Humza Yousaf and other members of the SNP NEC. The couple legally separated in 2021 not long after she was elected to serve as the MP for Airdrie & Shotts.

2021 Airdrie & Shotts By-Election

In April 2021, Anum was selected as the SNP candidate for the 2021 Airdrie and Shotts by-election and won it, becoming Scotland’s second female Muslim MP. The election had been triggered by the resignation of the sitting SNP MP Neil Gray so he could take up an MSP post at Holyrood in the May 2021 Scottish Parliament election.

The SNP was accused of “parachuting” Yousaf’s favourite into the election, to the detriment of local candidates following reports that her rich family were unhappy she had not been selected to fight the 2016 Holyrood election and had made their feelings known.

North Lanarkshire councillor, Paul Di Mascio, said he would have won the support of local members to stand in the 2021 Airdrie and Shotts by-election and claimed that his candidacy had been blocked by the cabal of Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell and Kirsten Oswald with the former two attending the wedding of the winning candidate.

He went on to say:

“I was interviewed by SNP chair and business convener Kirsten Oswald and then told that I had failed the process. There wasn’t much explanation given. Other local candidates weren’t even given an interview. Branch members then had a candidate who was not from the area imposed on them through a process that had been manipulated to make sure Anum won. I received messages of support from many councillors, sitting MPs and MSPs as well as local activists and people who had held senior positions within the party who thought it was a disgrace and themselves eluded to the whole process being manipulated or fixed from start to finish. The feeling was that the system was being manipulated to favour those selected by the leadership of the party – Nicola Sturgeon, Peter Murrell and their cronies. Rumours have been circulating for years about nepotism behind the scenes and nothing would now surprise me.””

Local MSP Neil Gray, who himself is not local, was hugely supportive of Anum, who had appeared from nowhere and had the support all of a sudden of Neil’s office staff and others who subsequently became employees when she was elected.

SNP – Police Investigate Allegations of Illegal Cash Donations

“Operation Branchform” detectives investigating claims that over £600,000 donated by supporters of independence for the “ring-fenced” purpose of a second referendum has been spent fraudulently received a letter from a whistleblower making bombshell claims that Party officials received substantial donations amounting to a five-figure sum from a Scots businessman friend of Humza Yousaf that were never published in line with electoral rules which require any donation over £500 to be declared. Failure to do so is a criminal act. The Lord Advocate, the country’s chief prosecutor, was sent the details.

A source close to the SNP said:

“It is well known that the businessman at the centre of these allegations is friendly with Humza Yousaf. They have known each other for quite a long time and have been seen chatting on many occasions at social gatherings. I would say they are friends.”

The author of the letter wrote that the businessman “expressed and boasted on several occasions in public spaces that he had donated ‘tens of thousands of pounds’ to the SNP over many occasions and years” and also alleges he was observed handing over “cash in white envelopes”.

It continued:

“I must disclose this information to assist your investigation and for the public interest. It would be an injustice not to inform you.”

It goes on to name the businessman and the politician they are related to, as well as SNP figures said to be aware of the donations. Details also included the timings of the donations.

Nicola Sturgeon was subsequently arrested and quizzed for seven hours as part of the inquiry. Her husband and former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell was previously arrested, as had former treasurer Colin Beattie. All three were released without charge pending further inquiries.

Humza’s First Wife Dr Gail Lythgoe

Gail was born in Essex, England, in 1988 to Chartered Surveyor, Andrew Lythgoe and her Scottish-born mother. The family preferred the Scottish way of life and moved back to Scotland soon after Gail’s birth and have resided near Glasgow for over 30 years.

Her family are staunch supporters of Scottish independence and Gail and her father pounded the streets of villages and towns in the West of Scotland for years doorstepping residents for the SNP, delivering the message of independence.

She first met and was smitten with the tall, debonair, rakishly handsome, clean-shaven, privately educated man of means, Humza Yousaf at an SNP conference in Perth in 2007.

Their relationship deepened over the next three years and they married in 2010.

A gifted academic, she studied at Edinburgh University between 2006-2010 and gained a degree in Law then went on to complete her PhD on the topic of “The territoriality of international law and global governance” at Glasgow University between 2010-2011.

Over that period she was also a key member of the SNP, serving as the student wing convener from 2010-2012, and parliamentary assistant to MSP Joan McAlpine from August 2011 to April 2012. And on the National Executive Committee (NEC).

She also actively participated in the “Yes Scotland” campaign during the 2014 referendum.

Gail-Her Faith and the Scottish-Islamic Foundation (1)

2010: It is a bright, cold afternoon in the west end of Glasgow, and the queue at KRK Continental Food, a halal butcher, snakes out of the door. Today is Eid Ul-Adha, the Islamic festival commemorating the prophet Ibrahim’s willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to Allah.

Muslims are supposed to mark this by arranging for lambs to be slaughtered – an act known as Qurbani – and donating meat to the poor.

Members of the Scottish-Islamic Foundation have arranged to pick up lamb and give it to asylum seekers who would not otherwise be able to celebrate Eid.

It is, at once, an act of devotion and social justice. The SIF is a not-for-profit organisation seeking to demonstrate the good that Muslims can bring to Scotland.

Inside the butchers, people shout orders over the whine of the band-saw. This scene feels ancient and elemental. Seven men are working in a small meat-smelling space. One wears a chain-mail glove to protect his hand from the knife. Carcasses, headless and hoofless, are carried in from a van, cut off the bone into fat-free bite-size pieces, then bagged and boxed.

The lambs were killed yesterday, in Paisley, by Shaukat Ali Faisal, a 65-year-old who slaughtered 1,015 in a single day. With the knife poised on each animal’s throat, he said the name of the person who had arranged the Qurbani and a blessing in the name of Allah. The butchers take extra care when preparing this meat. It’s a devotional ritual important to the community.

Their cars loaded with meat, the SIF team drive to Kingsway Court, an estate of multi-storey blocks. Outside the community centre, people are queuing for food.

They are from Afghanistan, Kurdistan and Somalia, among other countries. The Qurbani is handed out in blue bags, together with rice and ginger. There is liver and other innards for those who want them, but the kids running about seem more interested in the jumbo tins of Quality Street.

Distribution is being coordinated by Gail Lythgoe, wife of Humza Yousaf, who is a strikingly intelligent 21-year-old in the final year of a law degree. Raised as a Christian, she began to lose that faith in her teens and converted to Islam in January 2008. She remembers her maternal grandmother’s funeral as the turning point. The minister’s sermon didn’t ring true.

She became an atheist, but a period of depression led her to feel that something was missing from her life. She began reading up on different religions. Islam didn’t occur to her at first. It seemed so distant from the life of an independent-minded young woman in the West. But following the destruction of the World Trade Centre, Islam became much more part of the public discourse and she began to explore it. As a faith, it seemed to fit better with how she saw herself and the world.

More Background Info On Gail-Her Faith and the Scottish-Islamic Foundation (2)

When Gail talks about her conversion it sounds almost as though she thought her way towards Islam, arriving at religious belief by a completely rational and analytical process. But she insists there was also a leap of faith and passion. “You have to love Allah,” she says. “The way that I came to love Islam was by learning about it.” Other than when she prays, she doesn’t wear hijab – the head covering of Muslim women. “No, not yet,” she says. “I’m still finding out what the Quran says, what the Hadith of the Prophet says, to find out if it is 100 per cent required of me. My mum and dad, and my family and friends, won’t accept it unless I’ve thought it through properly.”

She says that, historically, it was better for Muslim women to cover themselves as it meant they would be treated with more respect. But she recognises that, now, on the cusp of a career in the 21st century, life could be worse for her if she does. “I live a very public, active life and I think, ‘How do I do this?’ Because people won’t give me jobs when I wear it, or they’ll treat me differently, or think I am some weak idiot who lets men rule. They won’t know my own story.”

Her faith journey is fascinating. One might think that a white feminist social activist would be an unlikely candidate for conversion to Islam. Yet it means a lot to her and she speaks about it very eloquently. When Gail talks about her faith, she sounds at peace; she sounds in love. “I wouldn’t be able to go back to not being a Muslim,” she says. “I love what Islam brings to my life and I don’t think I could ever disobey the God that I love.”. Cooking smells drift down from hundreds of kitchens. The Qurbani is being put to good use. https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/faith-and-religion-in-scotland-1740067

Afternote: The foundation was wound up after spending several hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money with almost nothing to show for it and with large sums unaccounted for.

Humza Yousaf’s aunt and mother were employed by the charity which was placed on a watch list after being described as an entry-level group for Islamist terrorists.

2017 – Gail and Humza Divorced

Difficulties surfaced in the marriage in the Autumn of 2015. But there was no public hint that their marriage was over until early December 2016 when the then Scottish Transport Minister (May 2016 – 26 June 2018) was charged with driving without insurance and blamed his ‘embarrassing error’ on his separation from his wife. He was fined £300 and handed 6 penalty points.

Gail divorced Yousaf early in 2017, a seismic event, given the circumstances contributing to the end of her marriage also forced her to leave the SNP.

In the run-up to the 2019 general election, she posted a photo of herself on Twitter posing with a Green campaign leaflet advocating diversity in Glasgow’s voting habits urging voters not to vote for political parties hijacked by “cults” but instead to lend their support to the Scottish Green Party which at that time had not yet been hijacked by a bunch of loonies.

Humza Yousaf’s Second Wife Nadia Maged El-Nakla

Yousaf married divorcee Nadia (his second marriage) in 2019. They have a daughter Maya, born in 2019 and a daughter from her previous marriage. They live in Broughty Ferry, a smart suburb a few miles east of Dundee. An arrangement which has attracted criticism since he represents the Pollock constituency in Glasgow some 50 miles to the West.

Her father is Palestinian but she was born in Scotland. She has relatives in Gaza and in 2021 she told how she was in constant contact with her brother Mohammed, his wife Duas and their three children amid conflict in the region.

She became an SNP councillor for the West End of Dundee in 2021, the first minority ethnic SNP candidate to be elected to the city council. After winning the council seat she said: “I want to take time over the next five years to invest in women and get them into politics because, in the Broughty Ferry ward, I don’t think we’ve ever seen a female councillor in I don’t know how long.”

Nadia also worked for Scottish Government minister Shona Robison and previously stood as a candidate for the SNP in North East Scotland in the 2021 Holyrood election but was unsuccessful.

The Gaza Strip 2015: Yousaf, Scotland’s Minister for External Affairs, accused the UK government of barring him from visiting Gaza to see the impact of £500,000 of Scottish government aid sent to the region. He repeatedly calls for: “Palestine to be recognised as an independent state”, for an arms embargo on Israel, and refers to Gaza as “being a place where people are starving and dying a slow death”.

The Gaza Strip 2021: Yousaf wrote on Twitter: “Wife has been in floods of tears all evening. Her brother lives in Gaza with his wife and three young children. He tells us it’s raining rockets.”

The Gaza Strip 2023: Nadia’s parents Elizabeth and Maged El-Nakla, became trapped in the Palestinian territory after Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel. They were there visiting relatives when Israel declared war on Hamas after its gunmen launched an attack on Israel and allegedly killed 1,400 people. Since then, Israel has relentlessly bombarded the Palestinian territory and invaded it. In a statement to the press, Yasouf said: “We are very pleased to confirm that Nadia’s parents were able to leave Gaza through the Rafah Crossing. These last four weeks have been a living nightmare for our family, we are so thankful for all of the messages of comfort and prayers that we have received from across the world, and indeed from across the political spectrum in Scotland and the UK.

Dozens of Nadia’s extended family including her brother, who works as an emergency doctor in Gaza, his wife and children, grandmother and stepmother remain in Gaza located in Deir al-Balah an area south of the Gaza River, the line which Israeli Defence Forces ordered Palestinians to move beyond.

Controversy: Nadia and Yousaf sued Little Scholars Day Nursery in Broughty Ferry in 2021 for £30,000 after an allegation that it unfairly discriminated against their then-two-year-old daughter Amal.

The couple initially made their complaint about the nursery after Amal was refused a place while, they said, applications submitted by friends and family for “white Scottish-sounding names” were accepted.

They launched the legal proceedings through lawyer Aamer Anwar in August 2021 before making a complaint to the Care Inspectorate, which was upheld, later that year.

They later withdrew their action stating they were content that the Care Inspectorate had supported their claim.

2020 – Tragedy – Unable to add to Family

Nadia was 11 weeks pregnant at the start of the Covid lockdown in early March 2020 when she felt that something wasn’t quite right. Symptoms had simply vanished overnight, and she knew instinctively from painful experience that her pregnancy was over.

In less than three years, Nadia has experienced five pregnancies, with just one of those successful when daughter Amal was born safely at 36 weeks in May 2019. And when they discovered they were expecting again at the start of this year, there was no disguising their fears. Nadia said: “I had been scared about being pregnant, not just because of what had happened in the past but also because Amal was so young and I was quite scared about having two children under two, but the fact is, I was even more scared that it just wouldn’t last and that this pregnancy would end like all the others before it. Sadly there will be no more children.

Full details here: https://www.holyrood.com/inside-politics/view,nobody-gives-you-a-manual-for-this-kind-of-stuff-humza-yousaf-and-nadia-elnakla-on-their-experience-of-multiple-miscarriages

Humza Yousaf – The Early Years

Yousaf worked in a “Call Centre” for a short time before becoming a spokesman for the controversial Islamic Relief. Controversial because in 2020 the entire UK board were forced to stand down after an anti-semitism scandal. As a Government minister, in 2013, he signed off a Scottish government donation for the organisation, totalling £398,000.

He was the President of the Glasgow University Muslim Students Association and a member of the Student Representative Council when he attended Glasgow University, where he graduated with a degree in Politics in 2007.

After graduating, he worked from 2007 as a parliamentary assistant to the first Scottish Muslim MSP Bashir Ahmadin, until the MSP’s death two years later.

He participated in the USA Foreign Office, CIA-funded “International Visitor Leadership Program” in 2008.

He was first elected to Holyrood as a list MSP for Glasgow in 2011 and then the MSP for Glasgow Pollock in 2016.

The Increasing Influence of Islam

The Yousaf family acquired influence in the planning and execution of SNP politics soon after Humza joined the Party in 2007. A situation created by the rapid and continuing growth in the West of Scotland in the number of Muslim immigrants from Pakistan and Southeast Asia.

Muslim votes greatly assisted the SNP in its efforts to gain political power and governance in Scotland. All good things come at a price and the Yousaf family, (shades of the Kennedys in the USA) and their supporters would call in favours at a time of their choosing.

They duly did so when Yousaf, as Justice Minister brought forward his flagship policy, “The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill” in 2019, which he promised would add many additional protections to minorities while maintaining existing rights to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. The bill becomes effective at the beginning of 2024 and despite many amendments, there are still concerns among many Scots about its draconian content, aspects of which continue to be subject to criticism by the Scottish public, the Catholic Church, the National Secular Society, the media and writers.

Yousaf’s links to Hamas – Holyrood Meeting With Former Hamas Leader

In 2008, Yousaf, then a parliamentary assistant to MSP Bashir Ahmad and his cousin Osama Saeed, who used to be an aide to former SNP leader and first minister Alex Salmond, arranged a meeting between Linda Fabiani the Scottish Culture and External Affairs Secretary and former *senior Hamas commander Mohammad Sawalha (described by BBC Panorama as the mastermind behind much of Hamas’ political and military strategy) who was accompanied by two other Hamas supporting activists, Anas Altikriti and Ismail Patel. Iraqi-born Altikriti frequently voiced support for Hamas, saying it was “fighting back” against Israeli occupation. Patel, who founded the Midlands-based Friends of Al-Aqsa said: “The current political map of Palestine… will have to include Hamas and Fatah amongst other political groups. Hamas is a resistance movement against colonial oppression and the backbone of Palestinian resistance.

Soon after the meeting Yousaf and Saeed established an Islamic lobbying group, The Scottish Islamic Foundation (SIF). Its first chief executive was Saeed who had previously expressed support for Islamists including Anwar al-Awlaki, the extremist preacher who inspired numerous Muslim terrorists, but who, he said, “preached nothing but peace.”

The SIF was awarded £405,000 in grants from the SNP government and announced the country’s biggest ever celebration of Islamic culture in Glasgow for June 2009. But the project collapsed and SIF was forced to repay £128,000 of the taxpayer funds it had received, with £72,000 already spent. Yousaf was also a director of SIF Ltd between May 2008 and September 2009.

Afternote: SIF was wound up after spending several hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money with almost nothing to show for it and with large sums unaccounted for. Humza Yousaf’s aunt and mother were employed by the charity which was placed on a watch list after being described as an entry-level group for Islamists.

*Sawalha was Hamas’ West Bank military chief before being appointed to its political leadership. He reportedly fled the Gaza Strip in 1990 after being placed on a wanted list by Israel. Hamas had at the time been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the US, but the UK did not follow suit until 2021. Sawalha attended the meeting at Holyrood as a representative of Islam Expo, which was funded by a £2 million grant from Qatar and held in London in 2006 and 2008. The Expos, run by Sawalha, included an appearance by Sheikh Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a Pakistani politician who praised the Taliban as “just and honourable men.” Lord Carlisle, a former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said: “Yousaf must address the circumstances in which he judged it appropriate to have close contact with Hamas supporters.

Financial Aid to the Hamas-Ruled Gaza Strip

The international community has sent billions of dollars in aid to the Gaza Strip in recent years to provide relief to the more than 2 million Palestinians living in the isolated, Hamas-ruled territory. The aid is intended to ease the burden on civilians of an Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed on Gaza when the Islamic militant group seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007. Israel says the heavy restrictions on trade and movement are needed to keep Hamas from enhancing its military capability, while critics view it as a form of collective punishment. Israel and Hamas have fought five wars since 2008, the most recent in 2023.

Israel closely supervises aid to try to ensure it bypasses Hamas. But the Hamas-run government benefits from foreign countries footing the bill for schools, hospitals and infrastructure, allowing it to conserve its resources, including the taxes and customs it collects.

Scottish Financial Aid to the UN’s Gaza Appeal:

Yousaf pledged to donate $1 million as Scotland’s humanitarian funding to the UN’s Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) appeal.

Transport Minister (2016 – 2018)

Faced with a growing crisis on the railway network Yousaf, responding to the transport workers unions call for his sacking he admitted he knew nothing about the transport brief before his appointment.

According to reports, there was chaos across Scotland’s railway when a train broke down outside Edinburgh station. Critics blasted the incident as the latest example of poor performance from an Abellio Scotrail service which they say has gone from bad to worse.

ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan said: “The Scottish Government’s response to the rail crisis has been pathetic. The Transport Minister has stood by while Abellio Scotrail takes Scotland’s passengers and taxpayers for a ride. Nicola Sturgeon must take personal responsibility for this situation as her government awarded this contract. She should sack her incompetent Transport Minister. You can’t control what you don’t own so the Scottish government should do the decent thing and return the railway to public ownership.”

Yousaf was quizzed in October at Holyrood over his administration’s handling of the beleaguered network amid stalled projects and declining services. following the release of a report from quango Transport Scotland which revealed the cost of five schemes had risen to from £1.1 billion to £1.5 billion. Including the stalled electrification of the flagship Glasgow-Edinburgh line which is over budget by £136 million – significantly more than forecast when its seven-month delay came to light.

Yousaf told MSPs the Scottish Government is, “monitoring closely every single project” while describing himself as “not being an expert”. He said: “There are things we can do to ensure we are monitoring closely every single project hence why we have established a projects board portfolio-wide. But we do rely on Network Rail as the contractor to ensure that when they give estimates those estimates at the design stage and developmental stage are well detailed and the fact that years on they can come and say that compliance issues that I think – not being a transport expert – that I think they should have been cited on these issues well well in advance at design stage. To come back years later and say that is costing ‘x million pounds’ is not an acceptable situation.”

Tory Leader Douglas Ross, was scathing in his assessment of Yousaf stating: “He was the Transport Minister who drove without insurance. He delayed the dualling of the A9. And he clapped like a seal when Sturgeon launched the windowless MV Glen Sannox in 2017.” (It was said to have had painted on windows at the time of the launch) and the ferry is still not in service 6 years later.

20 Nov 2017: – Humza Yousaf Transport Minister Speaks Out:

The Holyrood Magazine interviewed the Transport Minster who said he was determined to achieve a balance between his job and his personal life stating: “The mistake I have made previously was throwing myself into my work without regard to the consequences that would have on my relationships, whether that was my marriage or even other relationships with family. Sometimes you learn that lesson only when it is too late. My marriage broke down for several reasons which I don’t need to go into. It ended amicably between Gail and me…but certainly, one of the issues, which is entirely my fault and not Gail’s in the slightest, was paying too much attention to my work without realising the impact that had. If I look at my personal life, I’m in a happier place now than I have been in a long, long time, with no disrespect to my previous partner at all, but simply that I have managed to get my priorities in a much better place now. If I have learned one lesson over the last five years, it is to dedicate more time to the ones that I love. Transport minister is, frankly, bloody stressful enough, let alone any other job that carries even more weight and even more responsibility.”

Mental Health: Yousaf said that during the stressful time as Transport Minister, he was also facing the breakdown of his first marriage and had received professional counselling aiding his mental health. He said I am not sure if I could have continued to be a minister if I had not sought help. I think counselling has given me resilience.

Cabinet Secretary for Justice (2018–2021)

Rewarding mediocrity, Sturgeon promoted the unqualified Yousaf to the post of Cabinet Secretary for Justice. The first ever person appointed to the role without holding a university degree in Law. In his time in office crime figures rose from 244,504 to 246,511.

Yousaf, a champion of anti-free speech laws criminalising “stirring up” so-called “hatred” even in a person’s private home, ventured: “Are we comfortable giving a defence to somebody whose behaviour is threatening or abusive, which is intentionally stirring up hatred against, for example, Muslims? Are we saying that that is justified because that is in the home?”

He also ranted in the Scottish Parliament against the 91.8% of white people in high office in Scotland and asserted that “Scotland has a problem of structural racism.” Full details here:

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/07/05/racist-backlash-scotland-white/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/27/anti-free-speech-separatist-who-wants-fewer-white-people-in-office-now-leads-scotland/
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/10/29/scottish-justice-sec-demands-hate-speech-home-be-prosecuted/

March-December 2020 – Covid-19 Pandemic – Social Distancing Restrictions:

Nicola Sturgeon imposed social distancing regulations between March and July restricting the movement of Scots. She added a shutdown of all major events and banned any meeting between couples who did not live together.

On 11 May restrictions were eased to allow Scots to go outside more than once a day to exercise but it had to be done close to home which meant no travelling to other council areas and socialising had to be with members of the same household. couples who lived apart were permitted to have sex but only if restrictive conditions were complied with and the change did not extend to romances out of the family environment. Any affairs taking place from this point on would have broken all of these restrictions.

That ban was lifted in July when Sturgeon issued a notice stating that, “people who were part of a non-cohabiting couple, regardless of their living arrangements, no longer need to stay physically distant from each other, indoors or outdoors.” The wearing of facemasks in public remained prevalent beyond August and local lockdowns were still in place.

September saw the reintroduction of restrictions on meeting indoors for the residents of Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire and Glasgow and included rules banning any meeting with people from other households in indoor household settings.

New restrictions were further enforced over Christmas and New Year with travel bans. By 4 January 2021, there was another full-scale lockdown forbidding anyone from leaving their home except for essential purposes.

Sunday, 7 November 2021-The Secret Affair Between 2 Prominent SNP Politicians

Police were called after the partner of an SNP politician at the centre of the affair claimed her relatives had turned up at his home making threats. The man told officers he was shouted at and intimidated by two men outside his house and ordered to stop talking about the alleged affair.

Police Scotland confirmed they had attended the incident. A source said:

“They were trying to put pressure on him and his family to shut up. The police had to be called.”

A Police Scotland spokesperson said:

“Around 11.20 am on Sunday, 7 November 2021, we were called to a report of a dispute at the property. Officers attended and advice was given.”

The SNP has robustly denied rumours of the romantic relationship between the two highly-placed figures and said they are “categorically untrue”.

Both parties involved, widely known in political circles, cannot be named for legal reasons.

The aggrieved partner of the politician said:

“I’ve thought long and hard about going public about this, but I feel I can’t. I am fearful about the repercussions if I do, and I have to protect my family at all costs. That’s the most important thing for me.”

An SNP spokesman said:

“We are aware of rumours being reported in the media concerning two particular politicians, which first circulated at the start of 2021. No substantiation for these rumours has ever been offered, very simply because these allegations are categorically untrue.”