Humza Yousaf’s family drops discrimination case against nursery

SNP politician and his wife claimed their daughter was denied a place because of her Muslim-sounding name

The wife of Scotland’s health secretary has dropped legal action against a nursery the couple believed had discriminated against their daughter, allegedly because she had a Muslim-sounding name.

Nadia El-Nakla and Humza Yousaf, one of Scotland’s most prominent Muslim politicians, had accused Little Scholars day nursery in Broughty Ferry, Dundee of refusing to give their two-year-old daughter a place while accepting children with western-sounding names.