Humza Yousaf’s lack of action on poverty is ‘kick in the teeth’, say carers

People who shared experiences with Scottish first minister unimpressed with programme for government

People who shared personal stories with Humza Yousaf of living in poverty say the lack of concrete action in his first programme for government last week felt like a kick in the teeth".

Yousaf convened a cross-party, cross-sector summit on tackling poverty in May as one of his first acts as SNP leader.