Humza Yousaf: Scotland should not have first minister who is against equal marriage

Comments follow outcry after rival Kate Forbes said she would not have supported equal marriage legislation

Someone who would vote against equal marriage should not be first minister of Scotland, and could not be trusted to fight subsequent attempts to roll back rights, the SNP leadership candidate Humza Yousaf has said.

His closest rival, Kate Forbes, caused an outcry last week when she revealed she would not have supported the Scottish government’s equal marriage legislation had she been an MSP at the time, and one of the party’s most prominent LGBT+ politicians this weekend said scrutiny of such views should not be dismissed as “abuse”.